Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Much of this article's factual data and moral analysis, and many segments of its specific articulation, are contained in the primary and longer paper from which it is derived.See generally Paul T. Menzel & Bonnie Steinbock, Advance Directives, Dementia, and Physician-Assisted Death, 41 J.L. Med.& Ethics 484 (2013).The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics paper pursues the moral argument at greater length through eight paradigm cases of persons with dementia.The current article's analysis in Parts III-VI is considerably shorter, and it focuses more on all three of the basic eligibility conditions for legal physicianassisted death, not only current competency.Part VII of this article is entirely new.The background research that enabled me to construct this article was supported by a month as Visiting Researcher at the Brocher Foundation, Hermance, Switzerland, in April 2012.
Author: Paul T. Menzel
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Fondation Brocher
OpenAlex ID: W2980184527