PhilosophyMedicineSociology

R. Veatch

1999.7.1BIOETHICS

DOI: 10.1111/1467-8519.00148

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A physician friend of mine recently was caring for a critically ill infant who was dying and the physician told me that, as a physician, he had the right and the duty to refuse to provide treatment any longer because the effort was `futile'.

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VEATCH, R. The foundations of bioethics. BIOETHICS, 1999, 13 3-4: 206–17.