Life and Death in Healthcare Ethics: A Short Introduction.

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Watt, Helen. Life and Death in Healthcare Ethics: A Short Introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 2000.

Using real-life cases, this book examines a range of choices taken by health care professionals, patients and clients that lead to the shortening of life. After a description of various approaches to homicide, the discussion of non-voluntary euthanasia continues in the context of withdrawal of tube-feeding from patients in a "persistent vegetative state." There follows a chapter on voluntary euthanasia, consent to...

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