The STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI issue article summary

The summary of the selected article appears at the bottom of the page. In order to get back to the contents of the issue this article belongs to you have to access the link from the title. In order to see all the articles of the archive which have as author/co-author one of the authors mentioned below, you have to access the link from the author's name.

 
       
         
    STUDIA BIOETHICA - Issue no. 1-2 / 2019  
         
  Article:   CURRENT STATE OF LITERATURE RELATED TO THE EUTHANASIA PRACTICES OF MINORS.

Authors:  ADRIEN ALA-EDDINE ZAGAD, MARIA ALUAȘ.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  
DOI: 10.24193/subbbioethica.2019.03
Published Online: 2020-03-30
Published Print: 2020-03-30
pp. 29-40
FULL PDF

Euthanasia of minors is a medical procedure regulated and implemented in Belgium and Nederland. As all Euthanasia practices it is a topic very debated, especially in the field of medical ethics. This paper aim is to identify the literature published on this topic and to delineate the main perspectives of these practices. We collected articles published between 1st of January 2014 and 1st July 2018, treating about practices of euthanasia as a protocol for minors. 73 articles were selected from a total of 292 publications. We were looking to identify, in the same time, the context of the ethical debate on the topic and possible solutions or alternative to these practices.

Key Words: Ethics, Minors’ Euthanasia, End-of-life Decisions Making
 
         
     
         
         
      Back to previous page