Dutch Euthanasia: Background, Practice, and Present Justifications
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Kimsma, G.K.
van Leeuwen, E.
Thomasma, David C.
Puca, Antonio
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. 1993 Winter; 2(1): 19-35.
Abstract
Dutch developments on euthanasia have drawn much attention over the years. Defenders and opponents have been telling very different stories about the practice of euthanasia and the frequency of cases, and the Dutch government has been struggling with the legal and moral problems involved. Concern about the procedures followed by physicians as well as questions on the "real" figures led the government to decide to organize an epidemiological study on the extent and the decision making. The results of the study were published in November 1991 (
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1993Subject
Active Euthanasia; Advance Directives; Advisory Committees; Aged; Allowing to Die; Assisted Suicide; Autonomy; Consensus; Criminal Law; Consent; Decision Making; Drugs; Euthanasia; Evaluation; Evaluation Studies; Government; Guideline Adherence; Guidelines; Historical Aspects; Informed Consent; Intention; Law; Legal Aspects; Life; Minors; Morality; Organizational Policies; Organizations; Pain; Physician's Role; Physicians; Politics; Professional Organizations; Public Opinion; Public Policy; Religion; Statistics; Suffering; Suicide; Terminal Care; Terminology; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Values; Voluntary Euthanasia; Withholding Treatment;
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Dutch Euthanasia: Background, Practice, and Present Justifications
Kimsma, G.K.; Van Leeuwen, E.; Thomasma, David C.; Puca, Antonio (1993-01)