Withdrawing treatment from patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness: the wrong answer is what the wrong question begets
In a recent paper, Charles Foster argued that the epistemic uncertainties surrounding prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC) make it impossible to prove that the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment can be in a patient’s best interests and, therefore, the presumption in favour of the mainten...
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BMJ Publ.
2020
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 46, Issue: 8, Pages: 561-562 |
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