Medical Ethics
Medical Ethics | Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Consistent with Medical Ethics
“I am a retired general surgeon . . . dependent on a respirator. . . . When my continued survival is no longer meaningful (to me), I hope that a caring physician will make the transition as easy as possible. . . . I realize that some health professionals will find it impossible to do this, but I hope they and society will understand the true compassion for their patients’ suffering that motivates the physicians who do help those in need.”
—Stewart A. King, M.D.
In taking the Hippocratic Oath, doctors promise to prolong their patients’...
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- Introduction
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Chapter 1: Should Physicians Ever Hasten Patients’ Deaths?
- Prolonging Life and Death: An Overview
- Physicians Should Not Provide Futile Treatment
- Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Consistent with Medical Ethics
- Physicians Should Be Permitted to Assist in Suicide
- Physicians Should Not Withhold Lifesaving Treatments
- Physician-Assisted Suicide Violates Medical Ethics
- Physicians Should Not Be Permitted to Assist in Suicide
- Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Consistent with Medical Ethics
- Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Consistent with Medical Ethics
- Chapter 2: What Ethics Should Guide Organ Transplants?
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Chapter 3: Are Reproductive Technologies Ethical?
- Reproductive Technologies: An Overview
- Reproductive Technologies Are a Valid Medical Treatment
- Reproductive Technologies Can Be Consistent with Christian Beliefs
- Multiple Births Are an Acceptable Consequence of Assisted Reproduction
- Cloning Can Be an Acceptable Means of Reproduction
- Reproductive Technologies Are Morally Problematic
- Some Reproductive Technologies Violate Christian Beliefs
- Multiple Births Are a Harmful Consequence of Assisted Reproduction
- Cloning Is Not an Acceptable Means of Reproduction
- Chapter 4: What Ethics Should Guide Biomedical Research?
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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