Supportive care and euthanasia - An ethical dilemma?

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 114-119

  Volkenandt, Matthias ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assisted suicide; Doctor patient relationship; Euthanasia; Medical ethics

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AUTONOMY; CANCER; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DOUBLE EFFECT; INTENTION; INVOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA; MORAL POLICY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL IMPACT; SUFFERING; TRUST; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA; WEDGE ARGUMENT;

BENEFICENCE; DOUBLE EFFECT; ETHICS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; HUMANS; INTENTION; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; NEOPLASMS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERMINALLY ILL; TRUST; WEDGE ARGUMENT; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0031913408     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005200050144     Document Type: Review

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