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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2015]
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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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