You are here

Article info

Article menu

Download PDFPDF

Feature article
Worth living or worth dying? The views of the general public about allowing disabled children to die

Authors

  • Claudia Brick Monash University Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Clayton, Victoria, Australia Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Guy Kahane Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Dominic Wilkinson Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lucius Caviola Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Julian Savulescu Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Professor Julian Savulescu, Faculty of Philosophy, The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; julian.savulescu{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk
View Full Text

Citation

Brick C, Kahane G, Wilkinson D, et al
Worth living or worth dying? The views of the general public about allowing disabled children to die
Journal of Medical Ethics 2020;46:7-15.

Publication history

  • Received June 20, 2019
  • Accepted August 15, 2019
  • First published October 15, 2019.
Online issue publication 
January 14, 2020

Article Versions

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

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Other content recommended for you