Discussion paper on the ethics of limiting life-sustaining treatment / National Health and Medical Research Council, Ethics in Clinical Practice Advisory Panel
Published
Woden, A.C.T. : National Health and Medical Research Council, 1988
1. Extremely low boirth weight infants: what problems? -- 2. Infants with spina bifida -- 3. The sick elderly -- 4. Refusing treatment? withdrawing treatment? -- 5. Rights: whose? which? how do they affect ethical decision making? -- 6. Living wills - what value? -- 7. Who should decide for newborns? -- 8. Costs and who pays -- 9. Patient care ethics committees: what rile? -- 10. Horse-and-cart laws for space-age medicine?
Analysis
Aged
Case studies
Euthanasia
Federal issue
Infants
Medical ethics
Physical disability
Right to die
Notes
Approved by the 106th session at the National Health and Medical Research Council, Canberra, November 1988
Issuing Body
Approved by the 106th session of the National Health and Medical Research Council, Canberra, November 1988