Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Whereas killing involves intervention, letting die involves withholding care (for example, in passive euthanasia), [1] [2] or other forms of inaction (such as in the Trolley problem). Also in medical ethics there is a moral distinction between euthanasia and letting die. Legally, patients often have a right to reject life-sustaining care, in ...
Margaret Pabst Battin, also known as Peggy Battin, is an American philosopher, medical ethicist, author, and a current distinguished professor at the University of Utah. She is a supporter of assisted suicide and has worked extensively on ethical aspects of this issue.
The AMA is responsible for maintaining the Code of Ethics, which consists of two parts: the Principles of Medical Ethics and Opinions of the AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. [65] The role of physicians in patient's right to die is debated within the medical community, however, the AMA provided an opinion statement on the matter.
Still, proponents for utilitarian bioethics look toward models like quality-adjusted life years (QALY) and medical policies like the Texas Advanced Directives Act (TADA) and euthanasia in the Netherlands as advancements in modern health care, while dissenting views argue of its devaluing of individual human life.
A survey of physicians was conducted concerning the ethics of engaging in eight actions considered by the American Medical Association to constitute participation in capital punishment, and therefore deemed unethical for physicians. The eight actions were (a) administration of lethal drugs, (b) starting intravenous lines for such drugs, (c ...
Medical ethics is an applied branch of ethics which analyzes the practice of clinical medicine and related scientific research. [1] Medical ethics is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict. These values include the respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. [2]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... 'Euthanasia: Death, Dying and the medical duty' ... head of the medical ethics unit of the Imperial College ...
In this view, everyone is obligated to use ordinary means to preserve his or her life; abstaining from or withholding ordinary means from oneself or another is tantamount to suicide or euthanasia. Extraordinary means are those "which cannot be obtained or used without excessive expense, pain, or other inconvenience, or which, if used, would not ...