Chronic pain and voluntary euthanasia

Emotional status and its brain bases change in a chronic pain patient and this change affects his/her decision making ability. Moreover, it is accepted that a mentally disturbed individual is not competent to make critical decisions. According to these bases, this article demonstrates that such pati...

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Autor principal: Rismanchi, Mojtaba
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3713901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23908712
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spelling pubmed-37139012013-08-01 Chronic pain and voluntary euthanasia Rismanchi, Mojtaba J Med Ethics Hist Med Articles Emotional status and its brain bases change in a chronic pain patient and this change affects his/her decision making ability. Moreover, it is accepted that a mentally disturbed individual is not competent to make critical decisions. According to these bases, this article demonstrates that such patients are not entitled to request voluntary euthanasia. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2008-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3713901/ /pubmed/23908712 Text en © 2008 Mojtaba Rismanchi; licensee Tehran Univ. Med. Sci. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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