Distinguishing between Patients' Refusals and Requests

Hastings Center Report 24 (4):13-15 (1994)
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Abstract

To speak of patients' choices is to obscure the distinction between request and refusal of treatment. The distinction is particularly crucial for questions of killing or letting die.

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Killing and Allowing to Die: Another Look.Daniel P. Sulmasy - 1998 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 26 (1):55-64.
Refusals and Requests: In Defense of Consistency.Jeremy Davis & Eric Mathison - forthcoming - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics:1-11.
The Right to Privacy and the Right to Die.Tom L. Beauchamp - 2000 - Social Philosophy and Policy 17 (2):276-292.

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Where docs draw the line.Hilde Lindemann Nelson - 1993 - Hastings Center Report 23 (5):3.

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