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Author(s) -
Hans Jonas
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
etyka
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2392-1161
pISSN - 0014-2263
DOI - 10.14394/etyka.332
Subject(s) - duty , obligation , order (exchange) , medicine , medical emergency , law , business , political science , finance
Contemporary medical practices based on new technical inventions make it possible to prolong the patient’s life and his coma as well. Even if we assume that the patient has a specific obligation to stay alive it does not follow that it is the doctor’s duty to prolong his life indefinitely by using all possible techniques of resuscitation. The time has come to reformulate the proper objectives of medicine in order to make them compatible with the right to die. (Editors)