Afficher la couverture 'Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking : conceptual, personal, and policy questions | MOSKOP, John C.' en grand format
/5

0 avis

Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking : conceptual, personal, and policy questions

Article

MOSKOP, John C.

Although voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) as a way to hasten one's death is not yet a widely recognized practice in the United States, it has received increasing attention in the medical and bioethics literature in recent years. After a brief review of the broader context of human death and dying, this article poses and examines 11 conceptual, personal, and public policy questions about VSED. The article identifies essential features of VSED and discusses whether VSED is a type of suicide. It identifies reasons why people may or may not choose VSED, and it considers responses by family members and professional caregivers to people who have chosen VSED. It also considers how public policies may permit and regulate or restrict the practice of VSED. Examination of these questions is designed to increase understanding of VSED and to inform moral evaluation of this practice.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhab031

Voir la revue «The journal of medicine and philosophy»

Autres numéros de la revue «The journal of medicine and philosophy»

Consulter en ligne

Suggestions

Du même auteur

Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking : co...

Article indépendant | MOSKOP, John C. | The journal of medicine and philosophy

Although voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) as a way to hasten one's death is not yet a widely recognized practice in the United States, it has received increasing attention in the medical and bioethics literature in ...

Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking : co...

Article indépendant | MOSKOP, John C. | The journal of medicine and philosophy

Although voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) as a way to hasten one's death is not yet a widely recognized practice in the United States, it has received increasing attention in the medical and bioethics literature in ...

Physician-assisted death : ethical implicatio...

Article | DERSE, R. | Academic emergency medicine

Physician-assisted death (PAD) has long been a strongly debated moral and public policy issue in the United States (US), and an increasing number of jurisdictions have legalized this practice under certain circumstances. In light ...

De la même série

A dilemma for respecting autonomy : bridge te...

Article | KESTIGIAN, Aidan | The journal of medicine and philosophy | n°2 | vol.47

Respect for patient autonomy can apply at two levels: ensuring that patient care reflects their considered values and wishes and honoring patient preferences about how to make momentous decisions. Caregivers who seek to respect pa...

Reasoning about death in biomedical decision-...

Article | WEISSMAN, Jeremy | The journal of medicine and philosophy | n°3 | vol.47

Depending on our mode of reasoning-moral, prudential, instrumental, empirical, dialectical, and so on-we may come to vastly different conclusions on the nature of death and the appropriate orientation toward matters such as euthan...

Opioids, double effect, and the prospects of ...

Article | REED, Philip A. | The journal of medicine and philosophy

The relevance of double effect for end-of-life decision-making has been challenged recently by a number of scholars. The principal reason is that opioids such as morphine do not usually hasten death when administered to relieve pa...

Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking : co...

Article | MOSKOP, John C. | The journal of medicine and philosophy

Although voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) as a way to hasten one's death is not yet a widely recognized practice in the United States, it has received increasing attention in the medical and bioethics literature in ...

The role of hospice and palliative medicine i...

Article | DURHAM, Levi | The journal of medicine and philosophy

There is disagreement among physicians and medical ethicists on the precise goals of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM). Some think that HPM's goals should differ from those of other branches of medicine and aim primarily at le...

Chargement des enrichissements...