The Legal Consensus About Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatment: Its Status and Its Prospects
The legal consensus that has evolved through adjudication and legislation since the Karen Quinlan case in 1976 is founded on the premise that there is a bright line between passive euthanasia and active euthanasia. Indeed, the term passive euthanasia is often eschewed in favor of less emotionally-la...
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
1992
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Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal
Year: 1992, Volume: 2, Issue: 4, Pages: 309-345 |
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