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  1. Heartbeats, Burdens, and Biofixtures.Kelsey Gipe - 2021 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 30 (2):285-296.
    This paper addresses a dichotomy in the attitudes of some clinicians and bioethicists regarding whether there is a moral difference between deactivating a cardiac pacemaker in a highly dependent patient at the end of life, as opposed to standard cases of withdrawal of treatment. Although many clinicians hold that there is a difference, some bioethicists maintain that the two sorts of cases are morally equivalent. The author explores one potential morally significant point of difference between pacemakers and certain other life-sustaining (...)
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