A costly separation between withdrawing and withholding treatment in intensive care.

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 disagree...

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Main Authors: Wilkinson, D, Savulescu, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2014