Life and death represent two of the most significant events in the human condition. Nowhere
is the meaning of existence more poignant than in the simultaneous convergence of these …

I n the early 1970s three wide-ly read articles by physi-cians Lorber, Shaw, Duff and
Campbell caused intense medical-ethical debateover the practice of refusing to treat or …

Weeks 5 and 6. Continue Euthanasia and withholding treatment a. Film-'A Small
Imperfection'-from CAMR at York Univ. Film now retired to archives and not available …

States is comprised of infants who have multiple congenital anomalies. An additional 7
percent of live births, or 230,000 infants, weigh 2500 grams or less at birth and sustain high …

Medical advances bring their own ethical problems. Only a few years ago, many seriously
irreversibly brain damaged and handicapped patients would have died, but new medical …

This article is an attempt to review the role the courts have taken in cases involving the
termination of life supports for the terminally ill, brain dead, or comatose patient. It seeks to …

Several years ago, in a Midwestern town, a baby boy named Peter was born with spina
bifida, a congenital defect that causes a portion of the spinal cord to protrude outside of the …

Verhagen and Pieter Sauer reported on the Dutch experience with euthanasia in newborns
under current Dutch law and medical practice and proposed a protocol, called the …