Rosamond Rhodes, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Published online: January 2003
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003484
Because of technological advances that have enabled medicine to preserve and support life and the advances that have enabled physicians to measure previously unobservable biological activities, a host of social issues involving death and dying have developed. In light of these developments society has to refine its understanding of death and develop acceptable standards for decision-making surrounding death and dying.
Keywords: brain death; death; doctrine of double effect; dying; euthanasia
| Further Reading | |
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| book Beauchamp TL (1996) Intending Death: The Ethics of Suicide and Euthanasia. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. | |
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| book Dworkin RM (1993) Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom. New York: Knopf. | |
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| book Kamm FM (1996) "Morality, Mortality", vol. II: Rights, Duties, and Status. New York: Oxford University Press. | |
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| Veatch R (1993) The impending collapse of the whole-brain definition of death. Hastings Center Report 23(July–August): 18–24. | |
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