For this welcome development professional philosophers who are interested in bioethics are to some extent responsible. Professor Brock's republication of fourteen of his own essays on bioethics collectively constitute a "state of the art" notation, phrasing fundamental questions but offering answers that can at present, be no more than provisional. In a very useful Introduction, Brock comments ...

People who suffer from eating disorders often have to be treated against their will, perhaps by being detained, perhaps by being forced to eat. In this paper it is argued that whilst forcing compliance is generally acceptable, there may be circumstances under which a sufferer's refusal of consent to treatment should be respected. This argument will hinge upon whether someone in the grip of an e...

background: euthanasia is an important subject that concerns law and medicine as well as morality and religion in the 21st century. euthanasia has become a challengeable problem in scientific arena. in some countries,  legal and medical practitioners are allowed to kill those cancer patients who suffer from excessive pain while incur enormous amount of expenses for their treatments. methods: we...

The response to our position paper on palliative care and euthanasia ¡/ 55 commentaries, from 32 countries, in the March 2003 issue of Palliative Medicine ¡/ has been remarkable in its breadth and variety. Moreover, a most welcome s̀ide effect’, as it were, is that many commentators also take the opportunity to provide important information about the development and recent state of palliative ca...

OBJECTIVES To study the reported medical practice of euthanasia in Belgium since implementation of the euthanasia law. RESEARCH DESIGN Analysis of the anonymous database of all euthanasia cases reported to the Federal Control and Evaluation Committee Euthanasia. SUBJECTS All euthanasia cases reported by physicians for review between implementation of the euthanasia law on September 22nd, 20...