The recognition of the ethical and legal appropriateness of withholding or withdrawing life-
sustaining medical treatment is now ingrained as an essential part of the medical decision …

This article discusses recent arguments of Franklin Miller and Robert Truog about
withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment and causation. The authors argue that traditional …

During the 1970's published work in medical ethics consisted either of theoretical
discussions of ethical concepts or analysis of individual case discussions. During the late …

This book flags the development of an important aspect of biomedical ethics, the institutional
and societal matrix of the elective use of lifesustaining treatments. It confirms an explicit …

This column is the successor of the “Legal Trends” column published in this journal since its
first issue. 1 But, as indicated by the title, this column has adopted a new format. The old …

When it is ethically justifiable to stop medical treatment? For many Muslim patients, families,
and clinicians this ethical question remains a challenging one as Islamic ethico-legal …

The right to refuse medical intervention is well established, but it remains unclear how best
to respect and exercise this right in life support. Contemporary ethical guidelines for critical …

Several papers in this issue relate to the questions of-or as some would have it, the question
of-(a) when and why to forego life-prolonging treatment and (b) whether intentional killing of …

In the spring of 1988 a second working conference was convened. Thirty-three delegates
from ten countries met to produce a model set ofguidelines for discussion in medical and …

Ethical analyses, professional guidelines and legal decisions support the equivalence thesis
for life‐sustaining treatment: if it is ethical to withhold treatment, it would be ethical to …