Double effect: a useful rule that alone cannot justify hastening death
The rule of double effect is regularly invoked in ethical discussions about palliative sedation, terminal extubation and other clinical acts that may be viewed as hastening death for imminently dying patients. Unfortunately, the literature tends to employ this useful principle in a fashion suggestin...
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BMJ Publ.
2011
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 37, Issue: 7, Pages: 437-440 |
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