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Physician-Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Bioethics in Nazi and Contemporary Cinema
Today, physician-assisted suicidePhysician-assisted suicide and/or euthanasiaEuthanasia are legal in several European countries, Canada, several...
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Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the European Context
Assisted suicide is one of the most controversial topics in clinical ethics. The coexistence of tolerance for assisted suicide and the need to...
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Comparison of Self-Assessed Competencies Regarding End-of-Life Ethics between Physicians and Nursing Staff
Basic medical ethics teaching given to medical and vocational nursing students in Germany should ensure that they are capable of ethical reflection,...
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MAID Practice and Impact
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada is an ongoing project. Required by a court order in 2015, legalized in 2016 and amended in 2021, it was...
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Treatment, Placebos and Nocebos
Treatment in medicine is a medical intervention that can be performative, intentional, emotional, hortatory, or persuasive, which assumes patient...
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For, against, and beyond: healthcare professionals’ positions on Medical Assistance in Dying in Spain
BackgroundIn 2021, Spain became the first Southern European country to grant and provide the right to euthanasia and medically assisted suicide....
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Clinical Ethics and Professional Integrity: A Comment on the ASBH Code
The Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibilities for Healthcare Ethics Consultants instructs clinical ethics consultants to preserve their...
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Bioethics and the Krankenmorde: Disability and Diversity
Between 1933 and 1945, almost 300,000 people were murdered and 360,000 sterilized by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime under a group of crimes now...
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Euthanasia requests in dementia cases; what are experiences and needs of Dutch physicians? A qualitative interview study
BackgroundIn the Netherlands, in 2002, euthanasia became a legitimate medical act, only allowed when the due care criteria and procedural...
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Guidelines for conscientious objection in Spain: a proposal involving prerequisites and protocolized procedure
Healthcare professionals often face ethical conflicts and challenges related to decision-making that have necessitated consideration of the use of...
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Clinical Ethics Consultation and Physician Assisted Suicide
In this paper I attempt to address what appears to be a novel theoretical and practical problem concerning physician-assisted suicide (PAS). This...
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Ethical Challenges of the Dying Patient: Managing Cooperation Between Physicians and Caretakers
One of the most important areas in which the traditional ethos of the medical profession was transformed by progress in medical science and...
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The Transformation of Physicians from Healers to Killers: The Role of Psychiatry
This chapter will examine the direct and systematic involvement of psychiatry in the labeling, persecution and eventual mass murder of millions of...
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Contributions by Protestant Theology to Medical Ethics and Bio-Ethics in Germany
Medical ethics in Germany became an independent academic discipline in the 1970s. Ever since the end of World-War-II, experts had been drawing...
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Cross-cultural perspectives on intelligent assistive technology in dementia care: comparing Israeli and German experts’ attitudes
BackgroundDespite the great benefits of intelligent assistive technology (IAT) for dementia care – for example, the enhanced safety and increased...
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The Liverpool Care Pathway: Lessons in Care of the Dying
The importance of this chapter is to learn from the experience of the Liverpool Care Pathway in the UK. The lessons are evident from inception to...
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“Being prevented from providing good care: a conceptual analysis of moral stress among health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic”
BackgroundHealth care workers (HCWs) are susceptible to moral stress and distress when they are faced with morally challenging situations where it is...
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Suffering: Harm to Bodies, Minds, and Persons
Suffering is a basic human experience, and the concept of suffering can be defined in several ways. Typically, it is defined in terms of threats to...
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Why good work in philosophical bioethics often looks strange
Papers in philosophical bioethics often discuss unrealistic scenarios and defend controversial views. Why is that, and what is this kind of work good...