Unreasonable Means: Proposing A New Category for Catholic End-of-Life Ethics
Catholic end-of-life ethics does not contain a principle that prohibits the excessive use of medical treatment for declining and dying patients. This article fills this lacuna by exploring and developing the principle of unreasonable means. Unreasonable means are present when the burdens to the pati...
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Oxford University Press
2013
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Christian bioethics
Year: 2013, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 40-59 |
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