Should Pediatric Euthanasia be Legalized?
Autor: | Christopher Kaczor, Eduard Verhagen, Margaret P. Battin, Els Maeckelberghe, Marije Brouwer, John D. Lantos |
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Přispěvatelé: | Health Psychology Research (HPR) |
Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Parents Injury control Adolescent Poison control 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Belgium 030225 pediatrics Injury prevention Medicine Humans Euthanasia Active Voluntary Child Netherlands business.industry Beneficence Palliative Care Age Factors Human factors and ergonomics Infant 06 humanities and the arts Slippery slope United States LIFE Law Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Personal Autonomy END 060301 applied ethics business |
Zdroj: | Pediatrics, 141(2):20171343. AMER ACAD PEDIATRICS |
ISSN: | 0031-4005 |
Popis: | Voluntary active euthanasia for adults at their explicit request has been legal in Belgium and the Netherlands since 2002. In those countries, acceptance of the practice for adults has been followed by acceptance of the practice for children. Opponents of euthanasia see this as a dangerous slippery slope. Proponents argue that euthanasia is sometimes ethically appropriate for minors and that, with proper safeguards, it should be legally available in appropriate circumstances for patients at any age. In this Ethics Rounds, we asked philosophers from the United States and the Netherlands, and a Dutch pediatrician, to discuss the ethics of legalizing euthanasia for children. |
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