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  1. Autonomy and paternalism in geriatric medicine. The Jewish ethical approach to issues of feeding terminally ill patients, and to cardiopulmonary resuscitation.A. J. Rosin & M. Sonnenblick - 1998 - Journal of Medical Ethics 24 (1):44-48.
    Respecting and encouraging autonomy in the elderly is basic to the practice of geriatrics. In this paper, we examine the practice of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and "artificial" feeding in a geriatric unit in a general hospital subscribing to jewish orthodox religious principles, in which the sanctity of life is a fundamental ethical guideline. The literature on the administration of food and water in terminal stages of illness, including dementia, still shows division of opinion on the morality of withdrawing nutrition. We (...)
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  • The milk and the honey: ethics of artificial nutrition and hydration of the elderly on the other side of Europe.T. Garanis-Papadatos & A. Katsas - 1999 - Journal of Medical Ethics 25 (6):447-450.
    Many health problems that elderly people face today relate not only to the nature of their affliction but also to the kind of treatment required. Such treatment often includes artificial nutrition and hydration, (ANH) a procedure which, despite its technical and invasive character, is still considered to be vested with symbolic meanings. It is precisely during the efforts to reach a legal consensus that the discrepancies between various cultural contexts become obvious. The following case explores the Greek clinical territory in (...)
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  • Culture Wars in New York State: Ongoing Political Resistance by Religious Groups to the Family Health Care Decisions Act.Jack Freer & Stephen Wear - 2002 - Christian Bioethics 8 (1):9-24.
    Jack Freer, Stephen Wear; Culture Wars in New York State: Ongoing Political Resistance by Religious Groups to the Family Health Care Decisions Act, Christian bi.
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