Are withholding and withdrawing therapy always morally equivalent?
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Are withholding and withdrawing therapy always morally equivalent?
Many medical ethicists accept the thesis that there is no moral difference between withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapy. In this paper, we offer an interesting counterexample which shows that this thesis is not always true. Withholding is distinguished from withdrawing by the simple fact that therapy must have already been initiated in order to speak coherently about withdrawal. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/jme.20.4.218