Neonatal ethics has focused on 2 questions: is withholding potentially live-saving treatment
from neonates ethically justified? and if so, who has the authority to decide? This article …

Imagine that you are a teenager and have cancer. You undergo a year of chemotherapy and
after a brief return to normal life, you have a relapse. Your physician says that chemotherapy …

Hospital ethics committees continue to proliferate, despite the fact that their impact upon
practice has not been rigorously evaluated. This paper investigates the reasons why the …

Modern medicine has transformed the dying experience. In the developed world, most of us
no longer die from infectious diseases and sudden accidents, but from chronic illnesses that …

Increasingly, decisions to withhold treatment for the terminally ill have received considerable
attention in medical, ethical, legal and lay publications. Few studies, however, have …

Advance directives are useful ways to express one's wishes about end of life care, but even
now most people have not completed one of the documents. David Doukas and William …