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dc.date.accessioned2020-01-21T08:34:44Z-
dc.date.available2020-01-21T08:34:44Z-
dc.date.issued1989-
dc.identifier.citationPace, P. (1989). Life-sustaining treatment : ethical considerations. National Dialogue, Malta, 63-66.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/50613-
dc.description.abstractThe aim of my contribution this evening is to propose a single criterion for decision-taking in the subject we are considering, and show how this criterion can lead us to certain very practical conclusions. Few other areas in medical practice highlight so forcefully the ethical significance of our belief that medicine deals primarily with persons, sick persons, and not with disease. The complexity of the issues involved brings us to the sometimes painful realization that while decisions regarding life-sustaining techniques are laid in doctors' laps, they do not concern solely a medical problem. So that, while such decisions are evidently taken on the basis of clinical judgements, the latter can never be the only, or the ultimate criterion, for I believe that the sustaining of life through artificial techniques is fundamentally not a medical problem!en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherMinistry for Social Policyen_GB
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccessen_GB
dc.subjectCritical care medicine -- Moral and ethical aspectsen_GB
dc.subjectInformed consent (Medical law)en_GB
dc.subjectRight to die -- Moral and ethical aspectsen_GB
dc.titleLife-sustaining treatment : ethical considerationsen_GB
dc.typeconferenceObjecten_GB
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dc.bibliographicCitation.conferencenameNational Dialogueen_GB
dc.bibliographicCitation.conferenceplaceMalta, 7-9/07/1989en_GB
dc.description.reviewedN/Aen_GB
dc.contributor.creatorPace, Paul-
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