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Attitudes of Lay People to Withdrawal of Treatment in Brain Damaged Patients

BACKGROUND: Whether patients in the vegetative state (VS), minimally conscious state (MCS) or the clinically related locked-in syndrome (LIS) should be kept alive is a matter of intense controversy. This study aimed to examine the moral attitudes of lay people to these questions, and the values and...

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Autores principales: Gipson, Jacob, Kahane, Guy, Savulescu, Julian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3933752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24600485
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12152-012-9174-4