Are withholding and withdrawing therapy always morally equivalent?
Many medical ethicists accept the thesis that there is no moral difference between withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapy. In this paper, we offer an interesting counterexample which shows that this thesis is not always true. Withholding is distinguished from withdrawing by the simple f...
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BMJ Publ.
1994
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 1994, Volume: 20, Issue: 4, Pages: 218-224 |
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