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Debate, The Right To Treatment: Encounter And Synthesis, Aaron Twerski Jul 1972

Debate, The Right To Treatment: Encounter And Synthesis, Aaron Twerski

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Treating The Untreatable: A Critique Of The Proposed Pennsylvania Right To Treatment Law, Aaron Twerski Jan 1970

Treating The Untreatable: A Critique Of The Proposed Pennsylvania Right To Treatment Law, Aaron Twerski

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Prolonging Life, George P. Fletcher Jan 1967

Prolonging Life, George P. Fletcher

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A physician decides not to prolong the life of a terminal patient. What are the legal consequences? Is it murder, akin to a gunman's pulling the trigger? Or is the law more sensitive? Professor Fletcher proposes that a decision to interrupt life-sustaining therapy, such as that to turn off a mechanical respirator, should be classified as an omission, not an act. He arrives at this conclusion by analyzing the common sense usages of "cause" and "permit." If the decision is an omission then the law must focus on the doctor-patient relationship to define legal consequences, allowing customary standards of the …