A crucial category of contemporary medical ethics is the idea of autonomy. The principle point of the physicians activities is neither a duty of respect for the good of the patient (salus aegroti suprema lex), nor his protection against the damages (neminem laedere), nor in the case of doubts the service pro life (in dubio pro vita). Those maxims of physicians’ activities are located in the principal idea for respect of autonomy of the patient. Hardly from this point of view can the physician’s actions gain moral and legal legitimacy. Without the agreement of the patient, based on the information, that is the realization of his autonomy, and that he gives his opinion on the proposition of treatment, the physician does not have a recommendat...
By starting with a reflection about the different meanings ascribed to the so-called "right to die w...
In the contemporary society, ethical issues raise more and more controversial debates. This has also...
Patient autonomy has a vital role in making decisions in medical practice; this right of a patient i...
In the context of intensive discussion on the different legal regulations of assisted suicide, the u...
Philosophers who defend a person’s right, under certain circumstances, to end his own life or to hav...
Philosophers who defend a person’s right, under certain circumstances, to end his own life or to hav...
Within the debate on assisted suicide and euthanasia, the arguments from autonomy and from the speci...
Human beings are made in the image and likeness of God and are therefore of intrinsic worth or value...
Il s'agit de comprendre comment les notions de dignité et d'autonomie se trouvent sollicitées et mis...
In a highly influential piece supporting a patient's right to choose euthanasia, Dan Brock uses an i...
Traditional Abrahamic religious teaching states that it is wrong to kill the innocent. However, adva...
Paradoxically, the notion of autonomy is found in arguments both for and against the moral right to ...
In recent years, debates about euthanasia and assisted suicide have increased to the point that now,...
This article aims to verify the possibility that the terminal patient, provided with decisional auto...
The paper analyses ethical dilemmas and conflicting issues tied to euthanasia and the institutionali...
By starting with a reflection about the different meanings ascribed to the so-called "right to die w...
In the contemporary society, ethical issues raise more and more controversial debates. This has also...
Patient autonomy has a vital role in making decisions in medical practice; this right of a patient i...
In the context of intensive discussion on the different legal regulations of assisted suicide, the u...
Philosophers who defend a person’s right, under certain circumstances, to end his own life or to hav...
Philosophers who defend a person’s right, under certain circumstances, to end his own life or to hav...
Within the debate on assisted suicide and euthanasia, the arguments from autonomy and from the speci...
Human beings are made in the image and likeness of God and are therefore of intrinsic worth or value...
Il s'agit de comprendre comment les notions de dignité et d'autonomie se trouvent sollicitées et mis...
In a highly influential piece supporting a patient's right to choose euthanasia, Dan Brock uses an i...
Traditional Abrahamic religious teaching states that it is wrong to kill the innocent. However, adva...
Paradoxically, the notion of autonomy is found in arguments both for and against the moral right to ...
In recent years, debates about euthanasia and assisted suicide have increased to the point that now,...
This article aims to verify the possibility that the terminal patient, provided with decisional auto...
The paper analyses ethical dilemmas and conflicting issues tied to euthanasia and the institutionali...
By starting with a reflection about the different meanings ascribed to the so-called "right to die w...
In the contemporary society, ethical issues raise more and more controversial debates. This has also...
Patient autonomy has a vital role in making decisions in medical practice; this right of a patient i...