Sanctity of life law has gone too far

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 345, Issue 7866, 2012, Pages

  Gillon, Raanan ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COURT; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HYDRATION; JURISPRUDENCE; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; LIFE EXTENSION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; ETHICS; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; PASSIVE EUTHANASIA; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVE ADHERENCE; ENGLAND; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; HUMANS; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 84864205793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e4637     Document Type: Editorial

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