Medical Futility & Parental “Rights”
Decisions regarding withholding and withdrawing care raise some of the most difficult, yet classic, bioethical questions. The current events related to Charlie Gard, an infant and native of the United Kingdom, born with a rare and devastating disease known simply as mitochondrial depletion syndrome,...
Main Author: | Alex Fleming |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Columbia University Libraries
2017-09-01
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Series: | Voices in Bioethics |
Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/bioethics/article/view/6033 |
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