Titlebook: Contemporary European Perspectives on the Ethics of End of Life Care; Nathan Emmerich,Pierre Mallia,Francesca Pistoia Book 2020 Springer N

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Protestant Perspectives on End of Life Carethough, there are some guiding ethical principles held by most Protestant Churches: human life is a gift of God and must, therefore, be protected; humans are created to live their life freely in responsibility before God and other human beings; and Christians are called to love and care for those in

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The Distinction between Ordinary and Extraordinary Treatment: Can It Be Maintained?has formed part of medical ethics, even as that discourse, and the landscape it comments on, has radically changed and developed. In this essay we briefly canvas the history of the debate on ordinary/extraordinary treatment and consider its relevance for professional medical practice in the present

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The Difference Between Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatmentustaining treatment (LST). The Equivalence Thesis holds that there is no morally relevant difference between withholding and withdrawing LST: wherever it is morally permissible to withhold LST, it is morally permissible to withdraw LST, and vice versa. Several prominent bioethicists hold the Equival

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On Killing and Letting Die, Acts and Omissions: For and Against the Distinctions failures to act may be permissible, even if the outcomes are the same. Focusing on end-of-life decisions, I then survey the main arguments that have been levelled against the distinction and responses to these. First, there is the difficulty of drawing lines between actions and omissions. Second, t

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Virtue Ethicse virtuous practitioner, the virtuous patient, and virtue politics. Finally, it is briefly related to three key ethical issues: decisions to discontinue or withhold potentially life-prolonging treatment, the relief of pain and suffering, and the challenge of facing up to one’s own death.

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