... or not to be? : ethical decisions in Alzheimer's disease : the usefulness of comparative judgements

The concept of permanently insentient, though biologically alive human being and the associated legal precedence for the withdrawal of artificially delivered nutrition and hydration provides the basis for a number of ethical questions. Individuals in this state, for whom different disorders or circu...

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Main Author: Unsworth Webb, J.
Published: Swansea University 2001
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.639286