Medical Decisions at the End of Life

In Helga Kuhse & Peter Singer (eds.), A Companion to Bioethics. Malden, Mass., USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 261–273 (1998)
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This chapter contains sections titled: An Ethical Framework for Treatment Decision‐making Futile Treatment Ordinary and Extraordinary Treatment Killing and Allowing to Die Treating Pain and the Doctrine of Double Effect Conclusion References Further reading.

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10.1002/9781444307818.ch23

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