Dignity is omnipresent in Western ethics, but it also provokes dissension and controversy.
One of the most striking examples is the debate on medically assisted death, where dignity …

Due to globalizing trend of homogenisation of culture, changes in the health care delivery
system and market economics infringing on the practice of medicine, there has been a …

Since the legalization of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Canada in 2016, volitional
non-participation in MAiD on the part of some healthcare institutions has revealed ethical …

Aim: To study the awareness and attitude toward euthanasia among select professionals in
Delhi. Methodology: It was a questionnaire-based descriptive cross-sectional study. The …

Introduction: Deliberation over euthanasia has been enduring for an extended period of
time. On one end, there are populaces talking for the sacrosanctity of life and on the other …

In this chapter, I will reflect on medical ethics after the Holocaust by focusing on the rights
and responsibilities of the physician to uphold bioethical values in society—which must …

Debates on euthanasia (or 'mercy killing') have been a concern in moral, philosophical,
legal, theological, cultural and sociological discourse for centuries. The topic of euthanasia …

Background: Physician-assisted suicide is one of the features with very different legal
solutions in the world. In Serbia, physician-assisted suicide is a crime, within a crime of the …

Contemporary arguments concerning the permissibility of physician-assisted suicide [PAS],
or suicide in general, often rehearse classical arguments over whether individual persons …

Moral understandings, particular views of human flourishing, and accepted social roles,
expressed in often taken-for-granted norms of human form, behavior and grace, mark the …