PSYC 3570 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Feeding Tube, Slippery Slope, Iron Lung
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Chapter 9: euthanasia, assisted death, abortion, and the right to die (p. 267-296) Physicians enable assisted death but also may be vulnerable to suicide (physician suicide= epidemic catastrophe ) Cannot ask physician for assisted death in alaska, florida, michigan, south carolina or. French law does not allow active euthanasia. Mercy death : earliest, purest form of euthanasia: dying person or animal is given blow/shot that ends their life quickly (i. e. on battlefields. The hippocratic oath: swear to practice medicine on patients honestly. Babies and children considered precious in chinese culture: forced abortion and infanticide. I swear by apollo the physician: what happened to the hippocratic oath? . All physicians have sworn allegiance to the oath: 2. The oath represents core belief system for physicians from ancient times into future. Aristotle was one of first to disagree with abortion. Most physicians today do not swear on hippocratic oath.
