Article info
PDFElective ventilation
Current Controversy
Dignifying death and the morality of elective ventilation
- Correspondence to Dr Pablo De Lora, Department of Public Law and Legal Philosophy, Law School, Calle Kelsen s/n, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid 28049, Spain; pablo.delora{at}uam.es
Citation
Dignifying death and the morality of elective ventilation
Publication history
- Received August 1, 2012
- Revised November 24, 2012
- Accepted November 29, 2012
- First published January 8, 2013.
Online issue publication
February 18, 2013
Article Versions
- Previous version (8 January 2013).
- You are viewing the most recent version of this article.
Request permissions
If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.
Copyright information
Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions
Other content recommended for you
- Elective ventilation and the politics of death
- The dead donor rule: effect on the virtuous practice of medicine
- Elective non-therapeutic intensive care and the four principles of medical ethics
- Does it matter that organ donors are not dead? Ethical and policy implications
- Death and organ donation: back to the future
- Defining death in non-heart beating organ donors
- How long is long enough, and have we done everything we should? — Ethics of calling codes
- A narrative review of the empirical evidence on public attitudes on brain death and vital organ transplantation: the need for better data to inform policy
- Non-heart beating organ donation: old procurement strategy — new ethical problems
- The ethics of testing and research of manufactured organs on brain - dead / recently deceased subjects