Should a School Honor a Student's DNR Order? an Educator Responds: A School's Interest in Denying the Request
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Strike, Kenneth A.
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Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. 1992 Mar; 2(1): 19-23.
Abstract
My goal in this commentary is to try to construct a picture of the interests of school officials in considering the request of S.A. and her family. It is not clear from the case presentation whether one or more administrators were responsible for the decision not to honor S.A.'s request; I will call the decision maker "ADMIN," who may be regarded as an individual or a corporate body. I will try to make sense of ADMIN's decision by exploring some plausible lines of argument for it that seem worthy of consideration, even though I may not accept any or all of them....
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1992-03Subject
Administrators; Adolescents; Advance Directives; Allowing to Die; Decision Making; Directive Adherence; Emergency Care; Ethics; Heart Diseases; Institutional Ethics; Institutional Policies; Legal Obligations; Minors; Moral Obligations; Resuscitation; Resuscitation Orders; Right to Die; Schools; Students; Treatment Refusal;
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Should a School Honor a Student's DNR Order? an Educator Responds: A School's Interest in Denying the Request
Strike, Kenneth A. (1992-03)My goal in this commentary is to try to construct a picture of the interests of school officials in considering the request of S.A. and her family. It is not clear from the case presentation whether one or more administrators ...