A Costly Separation Between Withdrawing and Withholding Treatment in Intensive Care.

ABSTRACT Ethical analyses, professional guidelines and legal decisions support the equivalence thesis for life-sustaining treatment: if it is ethical to withhold treatment, it would be ethical to withdraw the same treatment. In this paper we explore reasons why the majority of medical professionals...

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Published in:Bioethics Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 127 - 138
Main Authors: Wilkinson, Dominic, Savulescu, Julian
Format: Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2014
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