Terminal sedation: A legal approach

European Journal of Health Law

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 359-367

  Gevers, Sjef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEDATIVE AGENT;

ANALGESIA; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; LAW; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; REVIEW; SEDATION; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL SEDATION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; LEGAL APPROACH;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; PALLIATIVE CARE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 2642525287     PISSN: 09290273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157180903772757821     Document Type: Review

References (14)

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3. R.McStay, Terminal sedation: palliative care for intractable pain; post Glucksberg and Quill, Am.Jnl. of Law and Med. 29; 2003: 45-76.
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6. I am following here the distinction made by J.H.van Delden, Medicine based ethics, University of Utrecht, 2003.
7. G. van der Wal et al., Medische besluitvorming aan het einde van het leven (Medical decision making at the end of life), De Tijdstroom, Utrecht 2003; I am giving the outcome of the survey as described on pp. 85-86 of the report.
8. Medische besluitvorming aan het einde van het leven (Medical decision making at the end of life), Verslag van de begeleidingcommissie (Report of the monitoring committee), Ministry of Health, The Hague 2003.
9. See, R. McStay, o.c., p. 46.
10. Idem, p. 53.
11. B. Broeckaert et al., o.c. 172.
12. Idem, p. 171.
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14. R. McStay, o.c., p. 76.