Word: euthanasias
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Sissela Bok, who teaches History of Science 141 with Stanley J. Reiser, assistant professor of the History of Medicine, said recently that the medical ethics course deals with euthanasia and other similar problems by "examining cases which pose questions about the ethics of the subject and discussing the difficulties encountered by physicians and patients." She said that the improvements in medical techniques over the last few decades have been a problem to doctors who know that their patients are terminally...
Still, each individual doctor who is faced with the problems of seriously ill or injured patients bears enormous burdens and the decisions to which he must come may have serious consequences. Recently, many doctors have suggested that national guidelines concerning the ethical extremes of euthanasia should be outlined. "The problem is a legal one as much as a medical one," says Dr. Irwin Kopin, chief of the Laboratory of Clinical Science at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md. "And the ethical and legal elements simply haven't been explored enough...
...EUTHANASIA SOCIETIES in America have long advocated clearcut policies in the area with an emphasis on attempting to clear up the burden of decision which faces relatives and physicians of dying patients. The Euthanasia Educational Fund, founded in New York City in 1967, has advocated the use of a "living will...
...Euthanasia Society of America, also located in New York City, even distributes a "living will" which is in the form of a dying patient's request for death by mercy killing. Although those requests are not likely to be met by most doctors because of the illegality of such action, supporters of the Society say they have received thousands of the applications...
...issue of euthanasia, when broached to many doctors, brings the same response that the topic of legal abortion brought several years ago. Many of them simply do not want to talk openly about the issues. The issue centers so much on individual beliefs, morals and judgments, and the merits of each individual situation that physicians are always going to come under fire from some group if they make the issue an open one. Many will candidly admit a vehement opposition to actual mercy killing, but say that they may no longer elect, for instance, to give penicillin to treat...