Withdrawing life-support technologies: perspectives on duty.
The decision to terminate life support is an emotionally charged dilemma, where law, medicine, and philosophy collide. Using a hypothetical patient, this article compares the views of medicine, law, and one school of philosophical thought.
D004992:Ethics, Medical; D007603:Jurisprudence; D008020:Life Support Care / Q000592:standards*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011050:Policy Making; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States