Acting to Let Someone Die

This paper examines the recent prominent view in medical ethics that withdrawing life-sustaining treatment (LST) is an act of killing. I trace this view to the rejection of the traditional claim that withdrawing LST is an omission rather than an act. Although that traditional claim is not as problem...

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Main Author: McGee, Andrew (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
In: Bioethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 74-81
RelBib Classification:NCB Personal ethics
NCH Medical ethics
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Killing
B Act
B causing death
B withdrawing life-support
B Omission
B letting die
B interloper
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