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Medical expertise, existential suffering and ending life




TekijätVarelius J

KustantajaBMJ PUBLISHING GROUP

Julkaisuvuosi2014

JournalJournal of Medical Ethics

Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimiJOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS

Lehden akronyymiJ MED ETHICS

Vuosikerta40

Numero2

Aloitussivu104

Lopetussivu107

Sivujen määrä4

ISSN0306-6800

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2012-100812


Tiivistelmä

In this article, I assess the position that voluntary euthanasia (VE) and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) ought not to be accepted in the cases of persons who suffer existentially but who have no medical condition, because existential questions do not fall within the domain of physicians' professional expertise. I maintain that VE and PAS based on suffering arising from medical conditions involves existential issues relevantly similar to those confronted in connection with existential suffering. On that basis I conclude that if VE and PAS based on suffering arising from medical conditions is taken to fall within the domain of medical expertise, it is not consistent to use the view that physicians' professional expertise does not extend to existential questions as a reason for denying requests for VE and PAS from persons who suffer existentially but have no medical condition.




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