freedom has been researched along with Minimally Conscious State in 183 studies
Timeframe | Studies, this research(%) | All Research% |
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pre-1990 | 63 (34.43) | 18.7374 |
1990's | 116 (63.39) | 18.2507 |
2000's | 2 (1.09) | 29.6817 |
2010's | 2 (1.09) | 24.3611 |
2020's | 0 (0.00) | 2.80 |
Authors | Studies |
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Glick, S; Jotkowitz, A; Zivotofsky, AZ | 2 |
Scoccia, D | 1 |
Eiser, AR; Seiden, DJ | 1 |
de Deyn, PP; Martin, JJ | 1 |
Phipps, EJ | 1 |
O'Connell, LJ; Yeide, H | 1 |
Braithwaite, SS | 1 |
Benes, R; Brobst, K | 1 |
Mahowald, MB | 1 |
Pellegrino, ED | 1 |
Corbett, TE | 1 |
Gillett, G | 1 |
Nimz, MM | 1 |
Di Somma, AV | 2 |
Meisel, A | 2 |
Childress, JF | 1 |
Thompson, LC | 1 |
Savulescu, J | 2 |
Cattorini, P; Reichlin, M | 1 |
Young, EW | 1 |
Greenhouse, L | 2 |
Ackerman, F; Cohen, C; Meisel, A; Silverman, H | 1 |
Atkinson, GM | 1 |
Momeyer, RW | 1 |
Derr, P | 1 |
Rowntree, S | 1 |
Santurri, EN; Werpehowski, W | 1 |
Piccione, JJ | 1 |
Johnson, SH | 1 |
Brock, DW; Buchanan, A | 1 |
Annas, GJ; Glantz, LH | 1 |
Jarrett, C | 1 |
Peters, EA | 1 |
Grant, ER; Koop, CE | 1 |
Dorff, EN | 1 |
Reisner, AI | 2 |
Dickens, BM | 1 |
Allsopp, ME | 1 |
Cotler, M | 1 |
Franklin, C; Weil, MH | 1 |
Humber, JM | 1 |
Watson, DE | 1 |
Dyck, AJ | 2 |
Cranford, R; Gostin, L | 1 |
van der Wal, G | 1 |
Hubbard, H | 1 |
McCarthy, JJ | 1 |
Stone, J | 1 |
Adams, CR; Adams, CT | 1 |
Mulholland, KA | 1 |
Matthews, MA | 1 |
Kutner, L | 1 |
Herlan, ER | 1 |
Cox, SE | 1 |
Callahan, D | 1 |
Dresser, R | 2 |
Kass, LR | 1 |
Harty-Golder, B; Morgan, R | 1 |
Francis, LP | 2 |
Harvey, JC; Johnson, SH; Quinn, KP | 1 |
Ellman, IM | 1 |
Lomasky, LE | 1 |
Robertson, JA | 3 |
Kamisar, Y | 1 |
Raffin, TA | 1 |
Avila, D; Bopp, J | 1 |
O'Connell, KJ; Paris, JJ | 1 |
Grondelski, JM | 1 |
McCormick, RA | 1 |
Feinberg, J | 1 |
Ayres, SM | 1 |
Dossetor, JB | 1 |
Singer, PA | 1 |
Quay, PM | 1 |
Stanley, JM | 1 |
Ifrah, AJ | 1 |
Richards, N | 1 |
Rich, BA | 2 |
Lerner, MJ | 1 |
Kadish, SH | 1 |
Ronzetti, TA | 1 |
Blake, DC; Maldonado, L; Meinhardt, RA | 1 |
Hoefler, JM; Kamoie, BE | 1 |
Callahan, D; Cassell, E; Lysaught, MT; May, WE; Meilaender, G; Smith, WB; Whitbeck, C | 1 |
Daar, JF | 1 |
Hoehne, JL | 1 |
Gomez, CF | 1 |
Mehrle, JP | 1 |
Lieberson, A | 1 |
Churchill, LR | 1 |
Winslade, WJ | 1 |
Dworkin, R | 1 |
McCormick, R | 1 |
Winkelstein, P | 1 |
Lynn, J | 1 |
Goldberg, CK | 1 |
Mendelson, D | 1 |
Snider, GL | 1 |
Broder, AJ; Cranford, RE | 1 |
Hirshman, LR | 1 |
Bleich, JD | 2 |
Feenan, D | 1 |
Morris, A | 1 |
Benton, EC | 1 |
Finnis, J | 1 |
Patterson, EG | 1 |
Cohen-Almagor, R | 1 |
Miller, BW | 1 |
Shiner, K | 1 |
Grubb, A | 1 |
Coleman, G | 1 |
Cantor, NL | 2 |
Schneiderman, LJ | 1 |
Blustein, J | 1 |
Kuczewski, MG | 2 |
Urofsky, MI | 1 |
Buchanan, A | 1 |
Keown, J | 1 |
Magnusson, R | 1 |
Orentlicher, D | 1 |
Jessop, DS | 1 |
Rakowski, E | 1 |
Baron, CH | 1 |
Day, K | 1 |
Colabrese, CA | 1 |
Appelbaum, PS; Klein, JI | 1 |
Rubin, BL | 1 |
Ramsey, P | 1 |
Peterson, GW | 1 |
Thomasma, DC | 1 |
Weinberg, JK | 1 |
Richard, SM | 1 |
Cahill, LS | 1 |
Harmon, L | 1 |
Banja, JD | 1 |
Evans, D; Kovacs, J | 1 |
Flick, MR | 1 |
Helme, T; Padfield, N | 1 |
Walter, JJ | 1 |
Machler, S | 1 |
HarveyParedes, T | 1 |
Gula, R | 1 |
McCoy, AG | 1 |
Griffiths, J | 1 |
Smith, K; Wilson, W | 1 |
Freeman, CW | 1 |
Buchanan, AE | 1 |
Biggs, H | 1 |
Lang, JA; Seltzer, MM | 1 |
Paris, JJ | 1 |
4 review(s) available for freedom and Minimally Conscious State
Article | Year |
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Ethical issues of life and death: a review article.
Topics: Abortion, Induced; Altruism; Animal Rights; Animals; Beneficence; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Decision Making; Double Effect Principle; Ethical Analysis; Ethical Theory; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Homicide; Humans; Individuality; Infant; Infanticide; Intention; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Motivation; Pain; Patient Selection; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Risk; Risk Assessment; Suicide; Terminally Ill; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1982 |
Deciding for others.
Topics: Advance Directives; Aged; Chronic Disease; Cognition; Communication; Comprehension; Decision Making; Dementia; Disclosure; Ethical Analysis; Ethics; Ethics Committees; Ethics Committees, Clinical; Ethics, Professional; Euthanasia, Passive; Evaluation Studies as Topic; Family; Freedom; Hospitals; Human Rights; Humans; Informed Consent; Interpersonal Relations; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Mental Disorders; Mental Processes; Mental Status Schedule; Paternalism; Patient Care; Patient Compliance; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Prevalence; Prognosis; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Values; Statistics as Topic; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1986 |
Choosing life after death: respecting religious beliefs and moral convictions in near death decisions.
Topics: Advance Directives; Attitude to Death; Autopsy; Blood Transfusion; Brain Death; Christianity; Civil Rights; Death; Decision Making; Economics; Freedom; Hospitals; Humans; Indians, North American; Jehovah's Witnesses; Judaism; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Life Support Care; Morals; New Jersey; New York; Nutritional Support; Organizational Policy; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Privacy; Public Policy; Religion; Social Values; State Government; Third-Party Consent; Tissue and Organ Procurement; Tissue Donors; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1988 |
Medical futility and aging: ethical implications.
Topics: Consensus; Decision Making; Empathy; Empirical Research; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Goals; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Medicine; Moral Obligations; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Probability; Prognosis; Quality of Life; Research; Resource Allocation; Resuscitation; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Responsibility; Social Values; Terminology as Topic; Treatment Outcome; Truth Disclosure; Uncertainty; Withholding Treatment | 1994 |
179 other study(ies) available for freedom and Minimally Conscious State
Article | Year |
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The secret of caring for Mr. Golubchuk.
Topics: Aged, 80 and over; Canada; Choice Behavior; Cultural Characteristics; Decision Making; Dissent and Disputes; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Jews; Life Expectancy; Life Support Care; Male; Medical Futility; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physician's Role; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 2010 |
The case of Samuel Golubchuk and the right to live.
Topics: Aged, 80 and over; Canada; Choice Behavior; Cultural Characteristics; Decision Making; Dissent and Disputes; Enteral Nutrition; Ethics, Clinical; Ethics, Medical; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Jews; Life Expectancy; Life Support Care; Male; Manitoba; Medical Futility; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physician's Role; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Societies, Medical; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 2010 |
Slippery-slope objections to legalizing physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia.
Topics: Advance Directives; Beneficence; Ethical Theory; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Freedom; Humans; Mental Competency; Netherlands; Paternalism; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Politics; Right to Die; Suicide, Assisted; Terminally Ill; United States; Value of Life; Wedge Argument | 2005 |
Discontinuing dialysis in persistent vegetative state: the roles of autonomy, community, and professional moral agency.
Topics: Advance Directives; Beneficence; Consensus; Decision Making; Dissent and Disputes; Ethicists; Ethics Committees, Clinical; Ethics, Medical; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Group Processes; Humans; Kidney Failure, Chronic; Medical Futility; Patient Advocacy; Peritoneal Dialysis; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Renal Dialysis; Resource Allocation; Withholding Treatment | 1997 |
[The loss of autonomy in disabling neurologic diseases. Ethical considerations].
Topics: Brain Death; Cognition; Communication; Dementia; Ethics, Medical; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Muscular Dystrophies; Nervous System Diseases; Patient Advocacy; Persistent Vegetative State; Quadriplegia | 1997 |
Rights: freedom, free will and the individual.
Topics: Ethics, Nursing; Fatal Outcome; Freedom; Humans; Male; Patient Advocacy; Persistent Vegetative State; Right to Die; Volition | 1998 |
Revisiting autonomy and informed consent.
Topics: Brain Injuries; Decision Making; Ethics, Medical; Family; Freedom; Humans; Informed Consent; Patient Participation; Persistent Vegetative State; Physician-Patient Relations | 2000 |
Missing the point: comments on the case presented by Barbara Edwards Commentary: the many styles of clinical ethics.
Topics: Altruism; Beneficence; Bioethical Issues; Bioethics; Blood Transfusion; Casuistry; Christianity; Decision Making; Education; Ethical Analysis; Ethicists; Ethics; Ethics Committees; Ethics Consultation; Ethics, Medical; Ethics, Professional; Euthanasia, Passive; Evaluation Studies as Topic; Family; Freedom; Health Personnel; Hospitals; Humans; Jehovah's Witnesses; Life Support Care; Methods; Organizational Policy; Patient Care Team; Patient Participation; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Prognosis; Quality of Life; Social Justice; Social Values; Socioeconomic Factors; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1990 |
Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapy.
Topics: Adult; Advance Directives; Altruism; Beneficence; Critical Illness; Decision Making; Ethics Committees; Ethics Committees, Clinical; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Informed Consent; Medical Futility; Mental Competency; Organizational Policy; Patient Participation; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physician-Patient Relations; Physicians; Reference Standards; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Values; Societies; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
Anticruelty care: commentary.
Topics: Aged; Altruism; Beneficence; Brain Diseases; Brain Injuries; Chronic Disease; Decision Making; Empathy; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Goals; Health Personnel; Humans; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Medicine; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Pain; Patient Care; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Policy Making; Prognosis; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Restraint, Physical; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Values; Stress, Psychological; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
Ethics in critical care: practitioners discuss collaborative approaches to decision making.
Topics: Adolescent; Advance Directives; Aged; Altruism; Beneficence; Bioethical Issues; Bioethics; Critical Illness; Decision Making; Ethics Committees; Ethics Committees, Clinical; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Intensive Care Units; Nurses; Patient Advocacy; Patient Care; Patient Selection; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Resource Allocation; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Values; Suicide, Assisted; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1992 |
Futility and unilateral decision making: a different view.
Topics: Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Goals; Humans; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Patient Care Team; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Resuscitation; Resuscitation Orders; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Values; Third-Party Consent; Withholding Treatment | 1993 |
Medical ethics.
Topics: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; AIDS Serodiagnosis; Bioethical Issues; Bioethics; Civil Rights; Confidentiality; Delivery of Health Care; Disabled Persons; Duty to Warn; Economics; Enteral Nutrition; Ethics; Ethics, Medical; Euthanasia, Passive; Fees and Charges; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Health Personnel; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Mass Screening; Nutritional Support; Patient Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Public Policy; Refusal to Treat; Resource Allocation; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1986 |
Withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging medical treatment.
Topics: Advance Directives; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Life Support Care; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Privacy; Right to Die; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1986 |
Reply to J M Stanley: fiddling and clarity.
Topics: Brain Death; Brain Diseases; Brain Injuries; Cadaver; Death; Freedom; Humans; Individuality; Life Support Care; Moral Obligations; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Quality of Life; Self Concept; Social Responsibility | 1987 |
Brophy v. New England Sinai Hospital.
Topics: Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; Legal Guardians; Massachusetts; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Quality of Life; Right to Die; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1986 |
McConnell v. Beverly Enterprises.
Topics: Civil Rights; Connecticut; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; Liability, Legal; Nursing Homes; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Right to Die; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1989 |
Gray v. Romeo.
Topics: Civil Rights; Conscience; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Health Personnel; Hospitals; Humans; Jurisprudence; Nutritional Support; Organizational Policy; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Privacy; Rhode Island; Right to Die; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1989 |
The care of the dying: a symposium on the case of Betty Wright -- Refusing treatment, refusing to talk, and refusing to let go: on whose terms will death occur?
Topics: Advance Directives; Analgesics, Opioid; Communication; Conscience; Decision Making; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Informed Consent; Jurisprudence; Liability, Legal; Pain; Patient Participation; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Physician-Patient Relations; Physicians; Public Opinion; Right to Die; Stress, Psychological; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1989 |
The care of the dying: a symposium on the case of Betty Wright -- Dying patients: who's in control?
Topics: Advance Directives; Chronic Disease; Conscience; Decision Making; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Health Facilities; Health Personnel; Humans; Jurisprudence; Organizational Policy; Pain; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Physicians; Right to Die; Stress, Psychological; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1989 |
In re Gardner.
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; Maine; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Right to Die; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1988 |
The Least Worst Death, by Margaret Pabst Battin.
Topics: Advance Directives; Aged; Coercion; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Counseling; Decision Making; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Germany; Health Care Rationing; Human Rights; Humans; International Cooperation; Internationality; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Resource Allocation; Right to Die; Social Justice; Stress, Psychological; Suicide; Suicide, Assisted; Terminology as Topic; Value of Life; Wedge Argument; Withholding Treatment | 1996 |
Introduction.
Topics: Advance Directives; Bioethical Issues; Bioethics; Cultural Diversity; Decision Making; Europe; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Individuality; International Cooperation; Internationality; Mediterranean Region; Paternalism; Patient Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Values; United States | 1997 |
On the bioethics front: the power of the nonrational in demands for marginally beneficial or useless treatments.
Topics: Coercion; Consensus; Decision Making; Delivery of Health Care; Economics; Ethics Committees; Ethics Committees, Clinical; Euthanasia, Passive; Financing, Government; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Health Services Misuse; Humans; Insurance, Health; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Mental Competency; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Resource Allocation; Social Justice; Social Values; Social Welfare; Terminal Care; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1994 |
Right-to-die case gets first hearing in Supreme Court.
Topics: Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; Missouri; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Privacy; Right to Die; Supreme Court Decisions; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1989 |
Justices find a right to die, but the majority sees need for clear proof of intent.
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Government Regulation; Humans; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Living Wills; Missouri; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Social Control, Formal; State Government; Supreme Court Decisions; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1990 |
Will society defend our right to live?
Topics: Advance Directives; Brain Death; Death; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Hospitals; Humans; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Minnesota; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Social Values; Third-Party Consent; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
Foody v. Manchester Memorial Hospital.
Topics: Chronic Disease; Civil Rights; Connecticut; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Hospitals; Humans; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Multiple Sclerosis; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Privacy; Prognosis; Quality of Life; Right to Die; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1984 |
In re Estate of Dorone.
Topics: Administrative Personnel; Adult; Advance Directives; Blood Transfusion; Christianity; Civil Rights; Critical Illness; Emergency Medical Services; Freedom; Hospitals; Humans; Jehovah's Witnesses; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Legal Guardians; Mental Competency; Parents; Pennsylvania; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Religion; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life | 1985 |
In re Jobes.
Topics: Adult; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; New Jersey; Nursing Homes; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Right to Die; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1987 |
In re Gardner.
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Informed Consent; Jurisprudence; Maine; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Right to Die; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1987 |
Gray v. Romeo.
Topics: Attitude; Civil Rights; Conscience; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Health Personnel; Hospitals; Humans; Jurisprudence; Nutritional Support; Organizational Policy; Patient Transfer; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Privacy; Rhode Island; Right to Die; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1988 |
McConnell v. Beverly Enterprises-Connecticut
Topics: Attitude; Civil Rights; Connecticut; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Liability, Legal; Nursing Homes; Nutritional Support; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Privacy; Right to Die; State Government; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1989 |
In re Fiori.
Topics: Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Nursing Homes; Nutritional Support; Pennsylvania; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Privacy; Reference Standards; Right to Die; State Government; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1995 |
In re Fiori.
Topics: Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; Nursing Homes; Nutritional Support; Pennsylvania; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; State Government; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1996 |
In re Tavel.
Topics: Aged; Decision Making; Delaware; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; Legal Guardians; Legislation as Topic; Living Wills; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; State Government; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1995 |
Deciding for others.
Topics: Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Ethicists; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Human Characteristics; Humans; Infant; Mental Competency; Moral Obligations; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Physician-Patient Relations; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Resuscitation Orders; Social Responsibility; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1983 |
Medical decisions concerning noncompetent patients.
Topics: Adolescent; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Informed Consent; Jurisprudence; Mental Competency; Minors; Paternalism; Patient Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Third-Party Consent; Withholding Treatment | 1983 |
Who shall live? who shall die? who shall play God? Some reflections on euthanasia.
Topics: Abortion, Induced; Aged; Beginning of Human Life; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Decision Making; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Fetus; Freedom; Human Characteristics; Humans; Individuality; Infant, Newborn; Life; Life Support Care; Living Wills; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Quality of Life; Resuscitation Orders; Self Concept; Terminally Ill; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1982 |
Substituted judgment and the terminally-ill incompetent.
Topics: Altruism; Beneficence; Decision Making; Ethical Theory; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Individuality; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Legal Guardians; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1982 |
The tradition of care.
Topics: Ethical Analysis; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Individuality; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Moral Obligations; Nutritional Support; Patient Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Physician-Patient Relations; Privacy; Quality of Life; Social Responsibility; Terminally Ill; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1986 |
The Death-Prolonging Procedures Act and refusal of treatment in Missouri.
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Health Facilities; Humans; Jurisprudence; Legal Guardians; Legislation as Topic; Liability, Legal; Life Support Care; Living Wills; Mental Competency; Missouri; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Professional Misconduct; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; State Government; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1986 |
The right of elderly patients to refuse life-sustaining treatment.
Topics: Adult; Advance Directives; Aged; Blood Transfusion; Christianity; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Dementia; Euthanasia, Passive; Female; Freedom; Hospitals; Humans; Informed Consent; Jehovah's Witnesses; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Legal Guardians; Legislation as Topic; Life Support Care; Living Wills; Male; Mental Competency; Patient Advocacy; Patient Compliance; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Privacy; Prognosis; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Resuscitation Orders; Right to Die; Social Responsibility; Social Values; State Government; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1986 |
Moral reasoning and legal change: observations on the termination of medical treatment and the development of law.
Topics: Advance Directives; Aged; Biomedical Technology; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Intention; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Morals; Motivation; New Jersey; Nursing Homes; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Prognosis; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Suicide; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1988 |
The care and treatment of the terminally ill: questions raised by McConnell v. Beverly Enterprises-Connecticut, Inc.
Topics: Conflict of Interest; Connecticut; Decision Making; Dissent and Disputes; Employment; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Financial Support; Freedom; Group Processes; Hospitals; Humans; Jurisprudence; Lawyers; Legal Guardians; Life Support Care; Nurses; Nursing Homes; Nutritional Support; Patient Care; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Politics; Professional-Family Relations; Stress, Psychological; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1989 |
The "small beginnings" of euthanasia: examining the erosion in legal prohibitions against mercy-killing.
Topics: Adult; Aged; Brain Death; Chronic Disease; Death; Disabled Persons; Economics; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Homicide; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Liability, Legal; Life Support Care; Living Wills; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Policy Making; Politics; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Right to Die; Suicide; Suicide, Assisted; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Wedge Argument; Withholding Treatment | 1986 |
A Jewish approach to end-stage medical care.
Topics: Abortion, Induced; Advance Directives; Altruism; Beginning of Human Life; Beneficence; Biomedical Technology; Decision Making; Dementia; Double Effect Principle; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Fetus; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Hospices; Humans; Individuality; Intention; Judaism; Jurisprudence; Life; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Motivation; Nutritional Support; Pain; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Religion; Resource Allocation; Resuscitation Orders; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Theology; Third-Party Consent; Tissue and Organ Procurement; Tissue Donors; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Ventilators, Mechanical; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
Mai beinaihu?
Topics: Double Effect Principle; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Individuality; Intention; Judaism; Motivation; Nutritional Support; Pain; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Religion; Resuscitation Orders; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Theology; Tissue and Organ Procurement; Tissue Donors; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
A halakhic ethic of care for the terminally ill.
Topics: Advance Directives; Biomedical Technology; Dehydration; Double Effect Principle; Ethical Relativism; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Fluid Therapy; Freedom; Hospices; Humans; Individuality; Intention; Judaism; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Motivation; Nutritional Support; Pain; Pastoral Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Probability; Prognosis; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Religion; Resuscitation Orders; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Stress, Psychological; Suicide; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Theology; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Uncertainty; Value of Life; Ventilators, Mechanical; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
Medical priority of patients' wishes.
Topics: Advance Directives; Blood Transfusion; Canada; Christianity; Civil Rights; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Jehovah's Witnesses; Jurisprudence; Liability, Legal; Life Support Care; Living Wills; Medical Futility; Mental Competency; New York; Ontario; Patient Advocacy; Patient Rights; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Religion; Supreme Court Decisions; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
From Quinlan to Cruzan: patterns in the fabric of US "right-to-die" case law.
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; History; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Privacy; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Suicide, Assisted; Supreme Court Decisions; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1992 |
Forgoing medical treatment: to withdraw, withhold, deny.
Topics: Advance Directives; Anesthesia; Communication; Conscience; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; General Surgery; Humans; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Mental Competency; Patient Participation; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Quality of Life; Resuscitation Orders; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Values; State Government; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
When critically ill patients refuse life-sustaining care.
Topics: Advance Directives; Critical Illness; Decision Making; Ethics Committees; Ethics Committees, Clinical; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Informed Consent; Intensive Care Units; Jurisprudence; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Resuscitation Orders; Right to Die; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
Statutory criteria for determining human death.
Topics: Advance Directives; Brain; Brain Death; Death; Decision Making; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Heart; Humans; Individuality; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Life Support Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Policy Making; Public Policy; Reference Standards; Self Concept; Social Change; State Government; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; United States; Value of Life; Wedge Argument | 1991 |
Cruzan and the right to die: a perspective on privacy interests.
Topics: Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Government Regulation; Humans; Informed Consent; Jurisprudence; Mental Competency; Missouri; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Privacy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Social Control, Formal; State Government; Supreme Court Decisions; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
Being a physician and being ethical.
Topics: Christianity; Ethical Theory; Ethics; Ethics, Medical; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Human Rights; Humans; Judaism; Jurisprudence; Love; Massachusetts; Moral Obligations; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Philosophy; Physicians; Privacy; Religion; Right to Die; Social Responsibility; Social Values; Suicide, Assisted; Theology; Value of Life; Virtues; Withholding Treatment | 1992 |
Futility: a concept in search of a definition.
Topics: Cost-Benefit Analysis; Decision Making; Delivery of Health Care; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Human Rights; Humans; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Resource Allocation; Social Values; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1992 |
Unrequested termination of life: is it permissible?
Topics: Altruism; Beneficence; Decision Making; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Evaluation Studies as Topic; Family; Freedom; Humans; Medical Futility; Mental Competency; Netherlands; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Physicians; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Statistics as Topic; Stress, Psychological; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Terminology as Topic; Third-Party Consent; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1993 |
What role for surrogate decision makers?
Topics: Advance Directives; Catholicism; Clergy; Decision Making; Ethics Committees; Ethics Committees, Clinical; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Health Personnel; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; New York; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Public Policy; Reference Standards; Social Justice; Social Welfare; State Government; Third-Party Consent; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1993 |
Caring for the critically ill patient in a persistent vegetative state: must nutritional and hydration support always be provided?
Topics: Brain Death; Casuistry; Catholicism; Critical Illness; Death; Decision Making; Dehumanization; Ethical Analysis; Ethics; Ethics, Medical; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Homicide; Humans; Individuality; Intention; Interpersonal Relations; Motivation; Narration; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Quality of Life; Risk; Risk Assessment; United States; Value of Life; Wedge Argument; Withholding Treatment | 1994 |
Advance directives, autonomy and unintended death.
Topics: Advance Directives; Coercion; Cognition; Comprehension; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Evaluation Studies as Topic; Family; Forms and Records Control; Freedom; Health Personnel; Hospitals; Humans; Intention; Life Support Care; Living Wills; Mental Competency; Motivation; Nursing Homes; Organizational Policy; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Quality of Life; Records; Resuscitation Orders; Terminally Ill; Terminology as Topic; Third-Party Consent; Withholding Treatment | 1994 |
An overview of Georgia's living will legislation.
Topics: Civil Rights; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Georgia; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Liability, Legal; Living Wills; Mental Competency; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Pregnancy; Pregnant Women; Privacy; Right to Die; State Government; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1984 |
A time to be born and a time to die: a pregnant woman's right to die with dignity.
Topics: Advance Directives; Brain Death; Civil Rights; Conflict of Interest; Euthanasia, Passive; Fetal Viability; Fetus; Freedom; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Pregnancy; Pregnant Women; Privacy; Right to Die; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1987 |
Suicidal competence and the patient's right to refuse lifesaving treatment.
Topics: Civil Rights; Critical Illness; Disabled Persons; Enteral Nutrition; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Intention; Jurisprudence; Mental Competency; Motivation; Nutritional Support; Paternalism; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Privacy; Quality of Life; Religion; Right to Die; Suicide; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1987 |
The living will: the epitome of human dignity in coping with the historical event of death.
Topics: Advance Directives; Attitude; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Human Rights; Humans; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Living Wills; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Organizational Policy; Patient Advocacy; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Privacy; Resuscitation Orders; Right to Die; Societies; State Government; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1987 |
Maine's living will act and the termination of life-sustaining medical procedures.
Topics: Chronic Disease; Civil Rights; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Informed Consent; Intention; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Life Support Care; Living Wills; Maine; Mental Competency; Moral Obligations; Motivation; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Privacy; Right to Die; Social Justice; Social Responsibility; Social Values; State Government; Terminally Ill; Treatment Refusal; Wedge Argument; Withholding Treatment | 1987 |
Government as arbiter, not custodian: relational privacy as foundation for a right to refuse medical treatment prolonging incompetents' lives.
Topics: Cadaver; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Family Relations; Freedom; Humans; Individuality; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Living Wills; Mental Competency; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Privacy; Right to Die; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1988 |
Vital distinctions, mortal questions: debating euthanasia and health care costs.
Topics: Biomedical Technology; Brain Death; Chronic Disease; Decision Making; Delivery of Health Care; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Financial Support; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Homicide; Humans; Life Support Care; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Public Opinion; Public Policy; Resource Allocation; Right to Die; Social Justice; Social Responsibility; Suicide; Suicide, Assisted; United States; Wedge Argument; Withholding Treatment | 1988 |
Life, death, and incompetent patients: conceptual infirmities and hidden values in the law.
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Economics; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Individuality; Jurisprudence; Mental Competency; Moral Obligations; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Privacy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Resource Allocation; Right to Die; Social Justice; Social Responsibility; Social Values; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1986 |
USCC brief in Nancy Cruzan case: continued nutrition and hydration urged.
Topics: Catholicism; Civil Rights; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Informed Consent; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Missouri; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Privacy; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Right to Die; Supreme Court Decisions; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment; Wrongful Life | 1989 |
Death with dignity and the sanctity of life.
Topics: Attitude to Death; Capital Punishment; Coercion; Dehumanization; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Homicide; Human Characteristics; Human Rights; Humanism; Humans; Individuality; Interpersonal Relations; Life Support Care; Moral Obligations; Morals; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Physicians; Policy Making; Religion; Right to Die; Social Responsibility; Social Values; Stress, Psychological; Suicide; Suicide, Assisted; Terminally Ill; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Virtues | 1990 |
Constitutional development of judicial criteria in right-to-die cases: from brain dead to persistent vegetative state.
Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Ethics Committees; Ethics Committees, Clinical; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; History; Human Rights; Humans; Informed Consent; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Minors; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Privacy; Prognosis; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Religion; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1988 |
The evanescence of living wills.
Topics: Advance Directives; Chronic Disease; Decision Making; Disabled Persons; Euthanasia, Passive; Evaluation Studies as Topic; Family; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; Living Wills; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Right to Die; State Government; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1989 |
When should the state step aside? Terminating treatment for PVS victims.
Topics: Advance Directives; Catholicism; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Privacy; Quality of Life; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1990 |
Cruzan v. Harmon and the dangerous claim that others can exercise an incapacitated patient's right to die.
Topics: Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Paternalism; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Privacy; Right to Die; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1989 |
Family matters: is big brother your next-of-kin?
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Family Relations; Freedom; Government Regulation; Humans; Jurisprudence; Missouri; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Right to Die; Social Control, Formal; Social Values; State Government; Supreme Court Decisions; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1990 |
Cruzan and the constitutional status of nontreatment decisions for incompetent patients.
Topics: Abortion, Induced; Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Government Regulation; Humans; Individuality; Jurisprudence; Mental Competency; Missouri; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Policy Making; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Social Control, Formal; State Government; Supreme Court Decisions; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
When is there a constitutional "right to die"? When is there no constitutional "right to live"
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Death; Decision Making; Dementia; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Food; Freedom; Homicide; Humans; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Supreme Court Decisions; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life; Ventilators, Mechanical; Wedge Argument; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
Assessing quality of life: a response to Professor Kamisar.
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Decision Making; Dementia; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Human Experimentation; Humans; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Supreme Court Decisions; Third-Party Consent; Tissue and Organ Procurement; Tissue Donors; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
Withholding and withdrawing life support.
Topics: Advance Directives; Altruism; Beneficence; Chronic Disease; Communication; Critical Illness; Decision Making; Disabled Persons; Ethical Analysis; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Intensive Care Units; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Nutritional Support; Patient Care Team; Patient Participation; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Prognosis; Quality of Life; Resuscitation Orders; Right to Die; Social Justice; Stress, Psychological; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
Perspectives on Cruzan: the sirens' lure of invented consent -- a critique of autonomy-based surrogate decisionmaking for legally-incapacitated older persons.
Topics: Advance Directives; Altruism; Beneficence; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Individuality; Informed Consent; Intention; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Moral Obligations; Motivation; Nutritional Support; Patient Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Physicians; Quality of Life; Right to Die; Social Responsibility; Social Values; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990.
Topics: Advance Directives; Communication; Decision Making; Education; Euthanasia, Passive; Federal Government; Freedom; Government; Government Regulation; Health Facilities; Humans; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Life Support Care; Living Wills; Organizational Policy; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physician-Patient Relations; Physicians; Right to Die; Social Control, Formal; State Government; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States | 1991 |
Removal of artificially supplied nutrition and hydration: a moral analysis.
Topics: Catholicism; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Homicide; Humans; Individuality; Intention; Interpersonal Relations; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Moral Obligations; Motivation; Nutritional Support; Patient Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Privacy; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Responsibility; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Value of Life; Ventilators, Mechanical; Withholding Treatment | 1989 |
Physician-assisted suicide: flight from compassion.
Topics: Aged; Attitude; Economics; Empathy; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Homicide; Humans; Life Support Care; Love; Nutritional Support; Pain; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physician-Patient Relations; Physician's Role; Physicians; Public Opinion; Social Values; Suicide, Assisted; Terminal Care; Trust; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
Overlooking the merits of the individual case: an unpromising approach to the right to die.
Topics: Accidents, Traffic; Alcoholism; Altruism; Beneficence; Capital Punishment; Civil Rights; Criminal Law; Decision Making; Ethical Analysis; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Government Regulation; Homicide; Human Rights; Humans; Immunization; Individuality; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Pain; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Philosophy; Policy Making; Public Health; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Change; Social Control, Formal; Social Justice; Social Values; Stress, Psychological; Supreme Court Decisions; Terminally Ill; United States; Value of Life; Wounds and Injuries | 1991 |
Who decides when care is futile?
Topics: Altruism; Beneficence; Burns; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Hospitals; Humans; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Patient Care Team; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Prognosis; Resuscitation Orders; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
Withdrawal of treatment: is it ever justifiable?
Topics: Advance Directives; Canada; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Intention; Jurisprudence; Medical Futility; Moral Obligations; Motivation; Pain; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Prognosis; Resuscitation Orders; Social Responsibility; Stress, Psychological; Terminal Care; Terminology as Topic; Third-Party Consent; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
The case of Nancy Cruzan, the Patient Self-Determination Act and advance directives in Canada.
Topics: Advance Directives; Attitude; Canada; Civil Rights; Euthanasia, Passive; Federal Government; Freedom; Government; Government Regulation; Humans; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Missouri; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Public Policy; Right to Die; Social Control, Formal; State Government; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
The sacredness of the human person: cessation of treatment.
Topics: Catholicism; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Individuality; Life Support Care; Moral Obligations; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Responsibility; Stress, Psychological; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1992 |
The Appleton International Conference: Developing guidelines for decisions to forgo life-prolonging medical treatment -- Preamble, Parts I, II, III, and IV.
Topics: Adolescent; Advance Directives; Altruism; Beneficence; Decision Making; Economics; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Guidelines as Topic; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Infant, Newborn; International Cooperation; Internationality; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Mental Competency; Minors; Moral Obligations; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Quality of Life; Resource Allocation; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Justice; Social Responsibility; Social Welfare; Terminal Care; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1992 |
The living will.
Topics: Advance Directives; Brain Death; Civil Rights; Conscience; Death; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Health Facilities; Humans; Judaism; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Living Wills; New Jersey; New York; Nutritional Support; Organizational Policy; Patient Transfer; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Privacy; Right to Die; State Government; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Tissue and Organ Procurement; Tissue Donors; Withholding Treatment | 1992 |
Surrogate consent.
Topics: Advance Directives; Decision Making; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Evaluation Studies as Topic; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Living Wills; Mental Competency; Paternalism; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Policy Making; Public Policy; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Wedge Argument; Withholding Treatment | 1992 |
The values history: a new standard of care.
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Compensation and Redress; Decision Making; Economics; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Hospitals; Humans; Individuality; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Liability, Legal; Living Wills; Mental Competency; Paternalism; Patient Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Physician-Patient Relations; Physicians; Reference Standards; Resuscitation Orders; Right to Die; Social Values; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Wrongful Life | 1991 |
State natural death acts: illusory protection of individuals' life-sustaining treatment decisions.
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Evaluation Studies as Topic; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Liability, Legal; Living Wills; Nutritional Support; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Right to Die; State Government; Terminally Ill; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1992 |
Letting patients die: legal and moral reflections.
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Dementia; Disabled Persons; Empathy; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Government Regulation; Humans; Informed Consent; Intention; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Motivation; Paternalism; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Control, Formal; Social Desirability; State Government; Suicide; Suicide, Assisted; Supreme Court Decisions; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1992 |
Constituting family and death through the struggle with state power: Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health.
Topics: Attitude to Death; Death; Decision Making; Dissent and Disputes; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Family Relations; Freedom; Government Regulation; Group Processes; Hospitals; Humans; Individuality; Interpersonal Relations; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Missouri; New York; Nutritional Support; Paternalism; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Politics; Privacy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Single Person; Social Control, Formal; Social Dominance; Social Values; State Government; Stress, Psychological; Supreme Court Decisions; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
Bioethics and the law: the case of Helga Wanglie: a clash at the bedside -- medically futile treatment v. patient autonomy.
Topics: Advance Directives; Brain Death; Casuistry; Consensus; Death; Decision Making; Disabled Persons; Economics; Ethical Analysis; Ethical Theory; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Goals; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Jurisprudence; Liability, Legal; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Prejudice; Probability; Prognosis; Quality of Life; Resource Allocation; Right to Die; Social Values; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Uncertainty; United States; Ventilators, Mechanical; Withholding Treatment | 1993 |
The right to die: state courts lead where legislatures fear to tread.
Topics: Advance Directives; Biomedical Technology; Civil Rights; Delivery of Health Care; Euthanasia, Passive; Federal Government; Financial Support; Freedom; Government; Humans; Informed Consent; Insurance, Health; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Living Wills; Medicaid; Medicare; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Politics; Pregnancy; Pregnant Women; Public Policy; Right to Die; State Government; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1992 |
The sanctity of life seduced: a symposium on medical ethics.
Topics: Attitude to Death; Biomedical Technology; Chronic Disease; Dementia; Disabled Persons; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Homicide; Humans; Intention; Life Support Care; Motivation; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Quality of Life; Religion; Risk; Risk Assessment; Suicide, Assisted; Terminally Ill; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1994 |
A clash at the bedside: patient autonomy v. a physician's professional conscience.
Topics: Abortion, Induced; Adolescent; Advisory Committees; Aged; American Medical Association; Conscience; Decision Making; Ethics Committees; Ethics Committees, Clinical; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Guidelines as Topic; Hospitals; Human Rights; Humans; Infant; Jurisprudence; Lawyers; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Moral Obligations; Nursing Homes; Patient Transfer; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Professional Autonomy; Public Policy; Refusal to Treat; Resuscitation; Social Responsibility; Societies; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1993 |
Physician responsibility and the right to "death care": the call for physician-assisted suicide.
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Federal Government; Freedom; Government; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Mental Competency; Organizational Policy; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Privacy; Right to Die; Societies; State Government; Stress, Psychological; Suicide, Assisted; Terminally Ill; Treatment Refusal; United States; Ventilators, Mechanical; Withholding Treatment | 1993 |
Reaping the whirlwind: the Dutch experience with euthanasia.
Topics: Adolescent; Depressive Disorder; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Guidelines as Topic; Homicide; Humans; Informed Consent; Intention; Jurisprudence; Liability, Legal; Minors; Motivation; Netherlands; Pain; Palliative Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Public Opinion; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Social Control, Formal; Societies; Suicide, Assisted; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1994 |
Beyond theological conflict in the courts: the issue of assisted suicide.
Topics: Canada; Civil Rights; Disabled Persons; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Homicide; Human Rights; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Moral Obligations; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Philosophy; Physicians; Privacy; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Religion; Right to Die; Social Justice; Social Responsibility; Social Welfare; Stress, Psychological; Suicide; Suicide, Assisted; Theology; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1995 |
DeGrella v. Elston: Kentucky Supreme Court rules on an incompetent's right to die.
Topics: Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Government Regulation; Humans; Jurisprudence; Kentucky; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Social Control, Formal; State Government; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1994 |
A comprehensive look at Connecticut's living will statute.
Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Connecticut; Decision Making; Dementia; Disabled Persons; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Forms and Records Control; Freedom; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Liability, Legal; Life Support Care; Living Wills; Minors; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Pregnancy; Pregnant Women; Prognosis; Records; Reference Standards; State Government; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1992 |
Trust, autonomy, and advance directives.
Topics: Advance Directives; Aged; Attitude; Bioethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Human Characteristics; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Jurisprudence; Motivation; Nutritional Support; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Right to Die; Social Values; Treatment Refusal; Trust; Virtues; Withholding Treatment | 1989 |
Posthumous reproduction.
Topics: Abortion, Induced; Advance Directives; Brain Death; Cadaver; Cesarean Section; Civil Rights; Cryopreservation; Death; Decision Making; Dissent and Disputes; Embryo Transfer; Embryo, Mammalian; Fathers; Fertilization in Vitro; Fetus; Freedom; Government Regulation; Group Processes; Humans; Insemination, Artificial; Jurisprudence; Labor, Obstetric; Life Support Care; Ownership; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Politics; Posthumous Conception; Pregnancy; Pregnant Women; Public Policy; Reproduction; Reproductive Techniques, Assisted; Single Person; Social Control, Formal; Spermatozoa; Spouses; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Tissue Banks; Tissue Donors; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1994 |
Irreconcilable conflicts in bioethics.
Topics: Abortion, Induced; Bioethical Issues; Bioethics; Dissent and Disputes; Emotions; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Passive; Fetus; Freedom; Group Processes; Humans; Individuality; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Politics; Probability; Public Policy; Social Values; Suicide, Assisted; Uncertainty; Value of Life | 1995 |
The right to death.
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Government Regulation; Humans; Jurisprudence; Legal Guardians; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Missouri; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Social Control, Formal; State Government; Suicide; Suicide, Assisted; Supreme Court Decisions; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
Technology, the consistent ethic and assisted suicide.
Topics: Attitude; Biomedical Technology; Catholicism; Decision Making; Delivery of Health Care; Economics; Education, Medical; Empathy; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Health Facilities, Proprietary; Homicide; Hospices; Hospitals, Religious; Humans; Life Support Care; Nursing Homes; Nutritional Support; Pain; Palliative Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physician-Patient Relations; Physicians; Poverty; Refusal to Treat; Social Change; Social Justice; Social Values; Suicide, Assisted; Terminal Care; Value of Life; Violence; Withholding Treatment | 1995 |
Negotiating towards death.
Topics: Anencephaly; Consensus; Cultural Diversity; Decision Making; Dissent and Disputes; Emergency Medical Services; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Group Processes; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Infant; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mothers; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Physicians; Politics; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Resource Allocation; Social Values; United States; Value of Life; Ventilators, Mechanical; Withholding Treatment | 1996 |
Is there a place for active euthanasia in palliative care.
Topics: Aged; Coercion; Communication; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Decision Making; Dementia; Disabled Persons; Economics; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Human Rights; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Pain; Palliative Care; Patient Participation; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Religion; Right to Die; Stress, Psychological; Suicide; Suicide, Assisted; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Value of Life; Wedge Argument; Withholding Treatment | 1988 |
Medico-legal aspects of the 'right to die' legislation in Australia.
Topics: Advance Directives; Australia; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Pain; Palliative Care; Patient Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Physicians; Right to Die; Suicide; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1993 |
Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapy: all systems are not yet "go"
Topics: Advance Directives; Attitude; Communication; Critical Illness; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Intensive Care Units; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Prognosis; Quality of Life; Resource Allocation; Right to Die; Societies; Terminally Ill; Treatment Refusal; United States; Ventilators, Mechanical; Withholding Treatment | 1995 |
"Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how was I to know?" Michael Martin, absolute prescience, and the right to die in Michigan.
Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Advance Directives; Brain Diseases; Brain Injuries; Cognition; Comprehension; Decision Making; Disabled Persons; Dissent and Disputes; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Group Processes; Humans; Intention; Interpersonal Relations; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Michigan; Minors; Motivation; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Politics; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Social Values; Third-Party Consent; Ventilators, Mechanical; Withholding Treatment | 1995 |
The philosophy of personal identity and the life and death cases.
Topics: Advance Directives; Ethical Theory; Ethics; Ethics, Medical; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Individuality; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Narration; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Right to Die; Third-Party Consent | 1992 |
Treatment of the terminally ill.
Topics: Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Homicide; Humans; Judaism; Life Support Care; Moral Obligations; Nutritional Support; Pain; Palliative Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Physicians; Quality of Life; Resource Allocation; Social Responsibility; Stress, Psychological; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Ventilators, Mechanical; Withholding Treatment | 1996 |
A "terrible beauty", the Irish Supreme Court, and dying.
Topics: Brain Diseases; Brain Injuries; Catholicism; Chronic Disease; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Dissent and Disputes; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Group Processes; Hospitals; Humans; Ireland; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Nutritional Support; Paternalism; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Politics; Privacy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Supreme Court Decisions; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1996 |
The "right to die": a case study in American lawmaking.
Topics: Adult; Advance Directives; Advisory Committees; Aged; Civil Rights; Consensus; Decision Making; Democracy; Dissent and Disputes; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Federal Government; Freedom; Government; Group Processes; History; History, 20th Century; Humans; Infant; Informed Consent; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Living Wills; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Organizational Policy; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Politics; Privacy; Prognosis; Public Policy; Reference Standards; Resuscitation Orders; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Societies; State Government; Suicide, Assisted; Supreme Court Decisions; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Ventilators, Mechanical; Withholding Treatment | 1996 |
Life and death decisions: "Die, my dear doctor? That's the last thing I shall do!
Topics: Adult; Advance Directives; Blood Transfusion; Cesarean Section; Christianity; Coercion; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Infant; Informed Consent; Jehovah's Witnesses; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Organizational Policy; Paternalism; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Physician-Patient Relations; Physicians; Pregnancy; Pregnant Women; Professional Autonomy; Professional Competence; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Societies; Treatment Refusal; United Kingdom; Ventilators, Mechanical; Withholding Treatment | 1996 |
The constitutionality of pregnancy clauses in living will statutes.
Topics: Abortion, Induced; Beginning of Human Life; California; Child, Unwanted; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Federal Government; Fetal Viability; Fetus; Florida; Freedom; Government; Humans; Jurisprudence; Life; Life Support Care; Living Wills; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Pregnancy; Pregnant Women; Privacy; Right to Die; State Government; Stress, Psychological; Terminally Ill; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1990 |
The "value of human life" and "the right to death": some reflections on Cruzan and Ronald Dworkin.
Topics: Abortion, Induced; Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; History, 20th Century; Homicide; Humans; Individuality; Jurisprudence; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Quality of Life; Right to Die; Social Values; Suicide; Supreme Court Decisions; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1993 |
Futility guidelines: a resource for decisions about withholding and withdrawing treatment.
Topics: Advance Directives; Communication; Consensus; Decision Making; Ethics Committees; Ethics Committees, Clinical; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Goals; Guidelines as Topic; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Intensive Care Units; Medical Futility; Nutritional Support; Organizational Policy; Patient Care Team; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Prognosis; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Resource Allocation; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Justice; Social Values; Terminally Ill; Terminology as Topic; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Outcome; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1994 |
The roles of the family in making health care decisions for incompetent patients.
Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Child; Civil Rights; Conflict of Interest; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Family Relations; Freedom; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Jurisprudence; Mental Competency; Minors; Parental Consent; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Outcome; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1992 |
Human rights and human life: an uneven fit.
Topics: Abortion, Induced; Adolescent; Adult; Anencephaly; Beginning of Human Life; Brain Death; Cadaver; Civil Rights; Death; Euthanasia, Passive; Fetus; Freedom; Human Rights; Humans; Individuality; Infant, Newborn; Informed Consent; Jurisprudence; Life; Mental Competency; Minors; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Quality of Life; Supreme Court Decisions; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1994 |
Autonomy, life as an intrinsic value, and the right to die in dignity.
Topics: Abortion, Induced; Aged; Decision Making; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Mental Competency; Paternalism; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Quality of Life; Resource Allocation; Right to Die; Stress, Psychological; Suicide, Assisted; Terminology as Topic; Treatment Refusal; United Kingdom; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1995 |
A time to kill: Ronald Dworkin and the ethics of euthanasia.
Topics: Abortion, Induced; Advance Directives; Ethical Theory; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Freedom; Homicide; Humans; Individuality; Intention; Jurisprudence; Mental Competency; Morals; Motivation; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Physicians; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Social Justice; Suicide, Assisted; Value of Life; Wedge Argument | 1996 |
Medical futility: a futile concept?
Topics: Anencephaly; Brain Death; Consensus; Decision Making; Dissent and Disputes; Ethics, Medical; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Group Processes; Health Care Rationing; Hospitals; Human Rights; Humans; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Mental Competency; Patient Transfer; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physician-Patient Relations; Physician's Role; Physicians; Politics; Refusal to Treat; Resource Allocation; Resuscitation; Treatment Outcome; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1996 |
PVS patient: disclosure after death: Re C (Adult Patient: Restriction of Publicity After Death)
Topics: Confidentiality; Death; Disclosure; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Health Personnel; Humans; Jurisprudence; Mass Media; Nutritional Support; Organizational Policy; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Physicians; Societies; United Kingdom; Withholding Treatment | 1997 |
Basic issues in the debate over dying.
Topics: Catholicism; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Homicide; Humans; Life Support Care; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Quality of Life; Right to Die; Stress, Psychological; Suicide, Assisted; Terminal Care; United States; Value of Life | 1998 |
The real ethic of death and dying.
Topics: Advance Directives; Decision Making; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Homicide; Humans; Individuality; Infant, Newborn; Informed Consent; Intention; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Motivation; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Physicians; Quality of Life; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Values; Suicide, Assisted; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1996 |
Choosing for others as continuing a life story: the problem of personal identity revisited.
Topics: Advance Directive Adherence; Advance Directives; Death; Decision Making; Dementia; Ethics; Ethics, Medical; Family; Freedom; Friends; Humans; Individuality; Interpersonal Relations; Mental Competency; Narration; Patient Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Philosophy; Reference Standards; Self Concept; Social Responsibility; Social Welfare; Terminal Care; Third-Party Consent; Time Factors | 1999 |
Commentary: narrative views of personal identity and substituted judgment in surrogate decision making.
Topics: Advance Directive Adherence; Advance Directives; Decision Making; Dementia; Ethics; Ethics, Medical; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Friends; Humans; Individuality; Interpersonal Relations; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Living Wills; Mental Competency; Narration; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Philosophy; Physicians; Reference Standards; Self Concept; Terminal Care; Third-Party Consent; Time Factors; Withholding Treatment | 1999 |
Leaving the door ajar: the Supreme Court and assisted suicide.
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Government Regulation; History; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Humans; International Cooperation; Internationality; Jurisprudence; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Public Opinion; Public Policy; Right to Die; Social Control, Formal; State Government; Stress, Psychological; Suicide; Suicide, Assisted; Supreme Court Decisions; Terminally Ill; Treatment Refusal; United States; Wedge Argument | 1998 |
Advance directives and the personal identity problem.
Topics: Advance Directive Adherence; Advance Directives; Age Factors; Altruism; Brain Diseases; Brain Injuries; Decision Making; Dementia; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Human Rights; Humans; Individuality; Life Support Care; Living Wills; Mental Competency; Moral Obligations; Paternalism; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Philosophy; Psychology; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Self Concept; Social Responsibility; Third-Party Consent; Time Factors; Treatment Refusal | 1988 |
The law and practice of euthanasia in the Netherlands.
Topics: Advisory Committees; Coercion; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Criminal Law; Data Collection; Decision Making; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Family; Freedom; Guideline Adherence; Guidelines as Topic; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Informed Consent; Jurisprudence; Netherlands; Organizational Policy; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Public Policy; Punishment; Referral and Consultation; Right to Die; Societies; Statistics as Topic; Stress, Psychological; Suicide, Assisted; Supreme Court Decisions; Wedge Argument | 1992 |
Treatment limitation decisions under uncertainty: the value of subsequent euthanasia.
Topics: Computers; Critical Illness; Decision Making; Decision Support Techniques; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Evaluation Studies as Topic; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Mental Competency; Patient Selection; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Policy Making; Probability; Prognosis; Quality of Life; Quality-Adjusted Life Years; Reference Standards; Resuscitation; Right to Die; Risk; Social Values; Statistics as Topic; Stress, Psychological; Treatment Outcome; Uncertainty; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment; Wounds and Injuries; Wrongful Life | 1994 |
The future of the euthanasia debate in Australia.
Topics: Advance Directives; Attitude; Australia; Brain Death; Civil Rights; Death; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Netherlands; Northern Territory; Palliative Care; Paternalism; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Politics; Public Opinion; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Religion; Right to Die; Social Change; Societies; Suicide, Assisted; Terminally Ill; Treatment Refusal; United Kingdom; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1996 |
The limitations of legislation.
Topics: Advance Directive Adherence; Advance Directives; Attitude; Civil Rights; Communication; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Fees and Charges; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Liability, Legal; Living Wills; Medical Futility; Patient Education as Topic; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Professional Autonomy; Resuscitation Orders; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Values; Socioeconomic Factors; State Government; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1994 |
Patients' rights and doctors' responsibilities: confluence and conflict.
Topics: Advance Directive Adherence; Advance Directives; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Decision Making; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Public Policy; Resource Allocation; Risk; Risk Assessment; Terminally Ill; Treatment Refusal; United Kingdom; Withholding Treatment | 1998 |
The sanctity of human life: Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom, by Ronald Dworkin.
Topics: Abortion, Induced; Advance Directives; Altruism; Beginning of Human Life; Beneficence; Dementia; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Fetus; Freedom; Government Regulation; Human Rights; Humans; Individuality; Jurisprudence; Life; Mental Competency; Morals; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Philosophy; Pregnancy; Pregnant Women; Public Policy; Religion; Right to Die; Social Control, Formal; Suicide, Assisted; Terminally Ill; United States; Value of Life | 1994 |
Medicine and human rights: emerging substantive standards and procedural protections for medical decision making within the American family.
Topics: Abortion, Induced; Adolescent; Adult; Amygdalin; Bioethical Issues; Bioethics; Civil Rights; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Decision Making; Ethics Committees; Ethics Committees, Clinical; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Informed Consent; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Legal Guardians; Mental Competency; Minors; Parental Consent; Paternalism; Patient Advocacy; Patient Care; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Physicians; Right to Die; Spouses; Sterilization, Reproductive; Supreme Court Decisions; Third-Party Consent; Tissue and Organ Procurement; Tissue Donors; Treatment Refusal; United States | 1983 |
A patient's last rights: termination of medical care--an analysis of New York's In re Storar.
Topics: Civil Rights; Decision Making; Ethics Committees; Ethics Committees, Clinical; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Mental Competency; New York; Parental Consent; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1982 |
In re Storar: the right to die and incompetent patients.
Topics: Blood Transfusion; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Legal Guardians; Massachusetts; Mental Competency; New Jersey; New York; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Privacy; Right to Die; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Withholding Treatment | 1982 |
Therefore choose death?
Topics: Adult; Attitude; Biomedical Technology; Chronic Disease; Decision Making; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Moral Obligations; Patient Selection; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Physicians; Privacy; Quality of Life; Resource Allocation; Right to Die; Social Responsibility; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Wedge Argument; Withholding Treatment | 1986 |
Refusal of life-sustaining treatment for terminally ill incompetent patients: court orders and an alternative.
Topics: Chronic Disease; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Dementia; Ethics Committees; Ethics Committees, Clinical; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Hospitals; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Physicians; Privacy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Values; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1985 |
Two-step fantastic: the continuing case of Brother Fox.
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Death; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Massachusetts; Mental Competency; New York; Patient Selection; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Privacy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1981 |
Balancing the right to die with competing interests: a socio-legal enigma.
Topics: Abortion, Induced; Age Factors; Civil Rights; Criminal Law; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Fetus; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Legal Guardians; Liability, Legal; Mental Competency; Patient Selection; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Pregnancy; Pregnant Women; Privacy; Prognosis; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Social Values; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life | 1985 |
Quality of life judgments and medical indications.
Topics: Advance Directives; Age Factors; Altruism; Beneficence; Biomedical Technology; Chronic Disease; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Moral Obligations; Paternalism; Patient Participation; Patient Selection; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Prognosis; Quality of Life; Resource Allocation; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Justice; Social Responsibility; Social Values; Stress, Psychological; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1986 |
Whose right is it anyway? Individualism, community, and the right to die: a commentary on the New Jersey experience.
Topics: Advance Directives; Aged; Chronic Disease; Civil Rights; Community Participation; Cultural Diversity; Decision Making; Disabled Persons; Ethics; Ethics Committees; Ethics Committees, Clinical; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Hospitals; Humans; Informed Consent; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Mental Competency; New Jersey; Nursing Homes; Nutritional Support; Paternalism; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Privacy; Prognosis; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Resource Allocation; Right to Die; Social Justice; Social Responsibility; Social Values; Socioeconomic Factors; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Vulnerable Populations; Withholding Treatment | 1988 |
Someone make up my mind: the troubling right to die issues presented by incompetent patients with no prior expression of a treatment preference.
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Dementia; Ethics Committees; Ethics Committees, Clinical; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Legal Guardians; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Physicians; Privacy; Prognosis; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Values; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1989 |
Sanctity of life, quality of life, and social justice.
Topics: Adult; Catholicism; Christianity; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Critical Illness; Delivery of Health Care; Disabled Persons; Economics; Ethical Theory; Ethicists; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Intensive Care Units; Interpersonal Relations; Life Support Care; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Philosophy; Protestantism; Quality of Life; Religion; Resource Allocation; Resuscitation Orders; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Desirability; Social Justice; Terminally Ill; Theology; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1987 |
Falling off the vine: legal fictions and the doctrine of substituted judgment.
Topics: Civil Rights; Decision Making; Ethical Theory; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; History; Humans; Informed Consent; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Mental Competency; Mentally Ill Persons; Ownership; Patient Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Privacy; Psychotropic Drugs; Sterilization, Reproductive; Third-Party Consent; Tissue and Organ Procurement; Tissue Donors; Treatment Refusal; United Kingdom; United States | 1990 |
Nutritional discontinuation: active or passive euthanasia?
Topics: Decision Making; Disabled Persons; Double Effect Principle; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Homicide; Hospitals; Humans; Intention; Jurisprudence; Liability, Legal; Motivation; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Prognosis; Right to Die; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Ventilators, Mechanical; Withholding Treatment | 1990 |
Terminating treatment in Hungary Allocating death.
Topics: Advance Directives; Delivery of Health Care; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Homicide; Humans; Hungary; Informed Consent; Patient Selection; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Public Policy; Resource Allocation; Social Justice; Terminally Ill; Terminology as Topic; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Ventilators, Mechanical; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
The due process of dying.
Topics: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Critical Illness; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Food; Freedom; Humans; Informed Consent; Intensive Care Units; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Moral Obligations; Paternalism; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Physician-Patient Relations; Physicians; Quality of Life; Right to Die; Social Responsibility; Suicide; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
Setting euthanasia on the level.
Topics: Advance Directives; Advisory Committees; Community Participation; Decision Making; Double Effect Principle; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Intention; Interdisciplinary Communication; Interprofessional Relations; Jurisprudence; Lawyers; Legislation as Topic; Mental Competency; Motivation; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Psychiatry; Public Policy; Referral and Consultation; Social Work; Stress, Psychological; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; United Kingdom; Value of Life; Wedge Argument | 1993 |
Termination of medical treatment: the setting of moral limits from infancy to old age.
Topics: Aged; Altruism; Anencephaly; Beneficence; Burns; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Critical Illness; Decision Making; Disabled Persons; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Financial Support; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Mental Competency; Pain; Patient Selection; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Justice; Stress, Psychological; Suicide, Assisted; Value of Life; Wedge Argument; Withholding Treatment | 1990 |
People with pipes: a question of euthanasia.
Topics: Advance Directives; Aged; Civil Rights; Coercion; Dementia; Disabled Persons; Economics; Enteral Nutrition; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Informed Consent; Intention; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Mental Competency; Mentally Ill Persons; Motivation; Nutritional Support; Patients; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physician-Patient Relations; Physicians; Privacy; Prognosis; Quality of Life; Resource Allocation; Right to Die; Social Desirability; Suicide; Suicide, Assisted; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Ventilators, Mechanical; Wedge Argument; Withholding Treatment | 1993 |
The killing words? How the new quality-of-life ethic affects people with severe disabilities.
Topics: Abortion, Eugenic; Adult; Attitude; Child; Coercion; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Diagnosis; Disabled Persons; Ethicists; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; General Surgery; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Individuality; Infant, Newborn; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Mental Competency; Nutritional Support; Parents; Patient Selection; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Physicians; Prejudice; Prognosis; Quality of Life; Right to Die; Social Justice; Social Responsibility; Suicide; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life; Ventilators, Mechanical; Withholding Treatment; Wrongful Life | 1992 |
Moral perspectives on euthanasia.
Topics: Biomedical Technology; Catholicism; Christianity; Cultural Diversity; Double Effect Principle; Empathy; Ethical Analysis; Ethical Theory; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Homicide; Human Rights; Humans; Intention; Life Support Care; Morals; Motivation; Pain; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Physician-Patient Relations; Physician's Role; Religion; Social Change; Social Values; Socioeconomic Factors; Stress, Psychological; Terminally Ill; Terminology as Topic; Theology; Trust; Value of Life; Virtues; Vulnerable Populations; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
HIV disease: criminal and civil liability for assisted suicide.
Topics: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Attitude; California; Civil Rights; Criminal Law; Disabled Persons; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; History; HIV Seropositivity; Homicide; Humans; Intention; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Liability, Legal; Malpractice; Motivation; Pain; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Privacy; Public Opinion; Right to Die; Stress, Psychological; Suicide; Suicide, Assisted; Terminally Ill; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1991 |
Recent developments in the Netherlands concerning euthanasia and other medical behavior that shortens life.
Topics: Advance Directives; Advisory Committees; Attitude; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Decision Making; Dementia; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; History, 20th Century; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Intention; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Mental Competency; Mentally Ill Persons; Motivation; Netherlands; Nutritional Support; Organizational Policy; Parental Consent; Paternalism; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Physicians; Prognosis; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Stress, Psychological; Suicide, Assisted; Terminal Care; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Wedge Argument; Withholding Treatment | 1995 |
The doctor's dilemma: necessity and the legality of medical intervention.
Topics: Abortion, Therapeutic; Cesarean Section; Civil Rights; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; Criminal Law; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Fetus; Freedom; General Surgery; Homicide; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Informed Consent; Intention; Jurisprudence; Liability, Legal; Moral Obligations; Motivation; Pain; Patient Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Physicians; Pregnancy; Pregnant Women; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Social Responsibility; Sterilization, Reproductive; Terminal Care; United Kingdom; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1995 |
What shall we do with Norman? An experiment in communal discernment.
Topics: Aged; Attitude to Death; Christianity; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Friends; Humans; Intention; Interpersonal Relations; Life Support Care; Moral Obligations; Motivation; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Protestantism; Quality of Life; Religion; Social Responsibility; Terminally Ill; Theology; Third-Party Consent; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1996 |
Postmodern medicine: deconstructing the Hippocratic Oath.
Topics: Abortion, Induced; Advance Directives; Bioethical Issues; Bioethics; Brain Death; Codes of Ethics; Communication; Death; Decision Making; Empathy; Ethical Analysis; Ethics; Ethics, Medical; Ethics, Professional; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Passive; Feminism; Fetus; Freedom; Hippocratic Oath; History; Humans; Individuality; Informed Consent; Jurisprudence; Medicine; Metaphor; Narration; Paternalism; Patient Participation; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Philosophy; Physician-Patient Relations; Postmodernism; Pregnancy; Pregnant Women; Reference Standards; Self Concept; Social Change; Social Dominance; Social Values; Sociology, Medical; Treatment Refusal | 1993 |
The limits of proxy decisionmaking for incompetents.
Topics: Brain Death; Civil Rights; Death; Decision Making; Dementia; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Individuality; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Mental Competency; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Physicians; Reference Standards; Resuscitation; Right to Die; Terminally Ill; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1981 |
Missing persons: legal perceptions of incompetent patients.
Topics: Advance Directives; Aged; Decision Making; Dementia; Empathy; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Mentally Ill Persons; Models, Theoretical; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Self Concept; Stress, Psychological; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Withholding Treatment | 1994 |
Decisions and responsibilities at the end of life: euthanasia and clinically assisted death.
Topics: Advisory Committees; Analgesics, Opioid; Decision Making; Double Effect Principle; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Intention; Ireland; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Liability, Legal; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Mental Competency; Motivation; Nutritional Support; Pain; Palliative Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Public Policy; Resource Allocation; Right to Die; Suicide, Assisted; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Treatment Refusal; United Kingdom; Withholding Treatment | 1996 |
Quinlan, privacy, and the handling of incompetent dying patients.
Topics: Decision Making; Ethics; Ethics Committees; Ethics Committees, Clinical; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; Legal Guardians; Mental Competency; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Privacy; Terminally Ill; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Wedge Argument; Withholding Treatment | 1977 |
Review of two books on death and dying.
Topics: Biomedical Technology; Civil Rights; Death; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Treatment Refusal | 1977 |
Brother Fox, the courts and death with dignity.
Topics: Catholicism; Civil Rights; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Privacy; Terminally Ill | 1980 |
Malette v. Shulman.
Topics: Advance Directives; Blood Transfusion; Canada; Christianity; Civil Rights; Critical Illness; Emergency Medical Services; Freedom; Hospitals; Humans; Informed Consent; Jehovah's Witnesses; Jurisprudence; Liability, Legal; Ontario; Patient Advocacy; Patient Rights; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physicians; Religion; Treatment Refusal | 1990 |
In re Guardianship of L.W.
Topics: Aged; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Institutionalization; Jurisprudence; Legal Guardians; Mental Competency; Mentally Ill Persons; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Risk; Risk Assessment; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Wisconsin; Withholding Treatment | 1992 |
Brophy v. New England Sinai Hospital, Inc.
Topics: Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; Legal Guardians; Massachusetts; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Quality of Life; Right to Die; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1986 |
Matter of Storar; Eichner v. Dillon.
Topics: Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Humans; Jurisprudence; Legal Guardians; Life Support Care; Mental Competency; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Terminally Ill; Treatment Refusal; Withholding Treatment | 1981 |
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health.
Topics: Advance Directives; Civil Rights; Decision Making; Euthanasia, Passive; Family; Freedom; Government Regulation; Humans; Jurisprudence; Legislation as Topic; Living Wills; Mental Competency; Missouri; Nutritional Support; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Privacy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Right to Die; Social Control, Formal; State Government; Supreme Court Decisions; Third-Party Consent; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1990 |
Legalistic and contextual approaches to living wills.
Topics: Communication; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Goals; Humans; Jurisprudence; Living Wills; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Physician-Patient Relations; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Right to Die; State Government; Terminally Ill; Treatment Refusal; United States | 1992 |
Religious traditions and public policy.
Topics: Advance Directives; Bioethical Issues; Bioethics; Brain Death; Civil Rights; Cultural Diversity; Death; Democracy; Ethics; Euthanasia, Passive; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Judaism; Jurisprudence; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Privacy; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Religion; Resource Allocation; Social Values; Theology; Treatment Refusal; United States; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment | 1988 |