artificial nutrition&hydration
Date Submitted: 05/27/2004 05:50:54
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 4 pages (975 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 4 pages (975 words)
In the last century, with the advent of plastic tubing, new ethical issues have been raised regarding nutrition and hydration of patients in comatose, or that of persistent vegetative states. By performing fairly simple procedures, artificial nutrition and hydration (AN&H) may be provided to almost all patients, including those unable to swallow.2 Therefore, patients who would otherwise imminently die may sometimes be kept alive for months or years. A Controversial issue that C.Pallis …
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…vegetative state" Http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article1921394859.html. Medical
College of Wisconsin Physicians and Clinics.
2. Scott B. Rae, "Moral choices; An introduction to ethics" Grand Rapids, MI: Vandervan Publishing 1995.
3 John F. Kilner, et al. "Dignity and Dying: A Christian Appraisal" Grand Rapids MI: William B Eardman's Website: Http://www.cbhd.org
3. Pallis C. "Whole brain death reconsidered- physiological facts and philosophy" From Journal of medical Ethics, Vol. 9, P. 34 Society for the study of medical ethics, 1983
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