
The moral issues involved in doctors assisting patients to die with dignity are of absolutely central concern to the medical profession, ethicists, and the public at large. The debate is fueled by cases that extend way beyond passive euthanasia to the active consideration of...

The moral issues involved in doctors assisting patients to die with dignity are of absolutely central concern to the medical profession, ethicists, and the public at large. The debate is fueled by cases that extend way beyond passive euthanasia to the active consideration of...


Las cuestiones morales relacionadas con la ayuda que podrian prestar los medicos a los pacientes que desean morir con dignidad tienen una importatncia primordial para la profesion medica, los filosofos preocupados por la etica y la sociedad en general. Este debate se aviva con...


With advances in ways to combat disease and death, new dilemmas have sprung up for medical personnel. How far should physicians go in delaying or in easing suffering? What can terminal patients ask doctors to do when reaching intolerable levels of dehumanization? What does Negative...