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A Life Worth Giving? The Threshold for Permissible Withdrawal of Life Support From Disabled Newborn Infants

When is it permissible to allow a newborn infant to die on the basis of their future quality of life? The prevailing official view is that treatment may be withdrawn only if the burdens in an infant's future life outweigh the benefits. In this paper I outline and defend an alternative view. On...

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Autor principal: Wilkinson, Dominic James
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3082774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21337273
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2010.540060