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Palliative Care and Patient Autonomy: Moving Beyond Prohibitions Against Hastening Death

The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) upholds policies prohibiting practices that deliberately hasten death. We find these policies overly restrictive and unreasonable. We argue that under specified circumstances it is both reasonable and morally sound to allow for treatments...

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Autores principales: LiPuma, Samuel H., DeMarco, Joseph P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Libertas Academica 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5147517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27980420
http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/HSI.S39013