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  1. Legitimizing the shameful: End-of-life ethics and the political economy of death.Miran Epstein - 2006 - Bioethics 21 (1):23–31.
    ABSTRACT This paper explores one of the most politically sensitive and intellectually neglected issues in bioethics – the interface between the history of contemporary end‐of‐life ethics and the economics of life and death. It suggests that contrary to general belief, economic impulses have increasingly become part of the conditions in which contemporary end‐of‐life ethics continues to evolve. Although this conclusion does not refute the philosophical justifications provided by the ethics for itself, it may cast new light upon its social role.
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  • Dignity and cost-effectiveness: analysing the responsibility for decisions in medical ethics.G. S. Robertson - 1984 - Journal of Medical Ethics 10 (3):152-154.
    In the operation of a health care system, defining the limits of medical care is the joint responsibility of many parties including clinicians, patients, philosophers and politicians. It is suggested that changes in the potential for prolonging life make it necessary to give doctors guidance which may have to incorporate certain features of utilitarianism, individualism and patient-autonomy.
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  • Medical ethics and medical practice: a social science view.M. Stacey - 1985 - Journal of Medical Ethics 11 (1):14-18.
    This paper argues that two characteristics of social life impinge importantly upon medical attempts to maintain high ethical standards. The first is the tension between the role of ethics in protecting the patient and maintaining the solidarity of the profession. The second derives from the observation that the foundations of contemporary medical ethics were laid at a time of one-to-one doctor-patient relations while nowadays most doctors work in or are associated with large-scale organisations. Records cease to be the property of (...)
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  • Resuscitation and senility: a study of patients' opinions.G. S. Robertson - 1993 - Journal of Medical Ethics 19 (2):104-107.
    In the context of 'Do-not-resuscitate' (DNR) decisions, there is a lack of information in the UK on the opinions of patients and prospective patients. Written anonymous responses to questionnaires issued to 322 out-patient subjects showed that 97 per cent would opt for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in their current state of health. In the hypothetical circumstance of having advanced senile dementia only 10 per cent would definitely want CPR, with 75 per cent preferring not to have CPR. There were no significant (...)
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  • The future prospects for living wills.D. Greaves - 1989 - Journal of Medical Ethics 15 (4):179-182.
    Following the first enactment of living will legislation in California in 1976 the majority of the states of the USA have now passed similar laws. However, flaws have been identified in the way they work in practice and many states are considering reviewing their legislation. In Britain there is no legislation but the subject is currently commanding considerable interest. This paper assesses the future prospects for living wills in both the USA and Britain, analysing the different options available and comparing (...)
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  • Dignity and death: a reply.S. A. Brooks - 1985 - Journal of Medical Ethics 11 (2):84-87.
    Some form of utilitarian approach can be discerned as underlying much current medical ethical decision-making. Criticisms of the practical effects of such an approach are not parried by asserting the fundamental strengths of utilitarianism as theory.
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