Medical Ethics
Medical Ethics | Physician-Assisted Suicide Violates Medical Ethics
[An] argument one often hears both in the Netherlands and in this country is that euthanasia and assisted suicide are perfectly compatible with the aims of medicine. I would note at the very outset that a physician who participates in another person’s suicide already abuses medicine. Apart from depression (the main statistical cause of suicide), people commit suicide because they find life empty, oppressive, or meaningless. Their judgment is a judgment about the value of continued life, not only about health (even if they are sick). Are doctors now to be given the right to make...
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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
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