by External Article | Sep 15, 2020 | Care Work Library, Death & Dying |
Robert Truog, who directs the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, co-wrote the Massachusetts guidelines on rationing ventilators in April 2020. He and his colleagues considered giving the families of patients removed from ventilators the option to... 
by External Article | Sep 25, 2017 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child |
Doctors sometimes encounter parents who object to prescribed treatment for their children, and request suboptimal substitutes be administered instead (suboptimal being defined as less effective and/or more expensive). Previous studies have focused on parental refusal... 
by External Article | Feb 17, 2011 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Child |
When is it permissible to allow a newborn infant to die on the basis of their future quality of life? The prevailing official view is that treatment may be withdrawn only if the burdens in an infant’s future life outweigh the benefits. In this paper I outline... 
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