Perspective: Terri Schiavo, Son Hudson, and 'nonbeneficial' medical treatments

Health Affairs

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 976-979

  Veatch, Robert M ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUSTODY; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; IN RE GUARDIANSHIP OF SCHIAVO; JURISPRUDENCE; LEGAL APPROACH; LEGAL ASPECT; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MORALITY; NOTE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; IN RE GUARDIANSHIP OF SCHIAVO; LEGAL APPROACH;

DECISION MAKING; ETHICS CONSULTATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; JUDICIAL ROLE; LEGAL GUARDIANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MORALS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; UNITED STATES; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 23044505495     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.24.4.976     Document Type: Review

References (8)

1. An Act for the Relief of the Parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo, Public Law 109-3, 109th Cong. 1st sess. (21 March 2005).
2. Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapter 166, Subchapter A, Sec. 66.052.
3. T. Gilmer et al., "The Costs of Nonbeneficial Treatment in the Intensive Care Setting," Health Affairs 24, no. 4 (2005): 961-971.
4. In re Quinlan, 70 N.J. 10, 355 A. 2d 647 (1976), cert. denied sub nom.; Garger v. New Jersey, 429 U.S. 922 (1976), overruled in part; and In re Conroy, 98 N.J. 321, 486 A.2d 1209 (1985).
5. In re Conroy, 98 N.J. 321, 486 A.2d 1209 (1985).
6. C.J. McFadden, Medical Ethics, 6th ed. (Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 1967), 245.
7. P.T. Menzel, Medical Costs, Moral Choices: A Philosophy of Health Care Economics in America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1983).
8. See, for example, L.A. Siminoff, C. Burant, and S.J. Youngner, "Death and Organ Procurement: Public Beliefs and Attitudes," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 14, no. 3 (2004): 217-234.