This article presents standards for setting up and educating institutional ethics committees
(IECs). These standards are based on experiences in the Netherlands, where IECs have …

Most of us will die in fashions out of our control and unaware of the moment of death itself.
Consequently, it is a myth to think that the moment of death is our last opportunity to reveal …

With the growing numbers of institutional ethics committees (IEC) in the Netherlands, one is
confronted with many differences between these committees. Sometimes it is difficult to …

There is a need for reassessing the specific responsibilities of health care institutions in
cases of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. For many patients health care …

Here, the notion of distributive justice is explored in relation to the introduction and the
application of new medical technologies within the clinical setting. The point of departure is …

When, in 1984, the Dutch government added the institutional review board to the list of
federal requirements (1), the interest in institutional ethics committees (IEC) began to rise …

The contents of the position paper of the EAPC Task Force on Euthanasia describes recent
developments concerning euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in Europe. At the …

FIRST PERSON outside and the room inside for some seconds. Apparently big earthquakes
are accompanied by the release of high levels of energy that manifests itself in the form of …

This article analyzes a number of traumatic events and the way in which victims have
responded to these events and their interpretation by third parties, which may seriously …

In recent years, palliative care has become the dominant concept in the care of patients in
the last phase of their life, especially for those patients who no longer respond to curative …