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Bioethical frameworks in end of life care decision-making
Pereira, Sandra Martins; Borges, Paulo J.; Hernández-Marrero, PabloThis chapter provides an overview of how the medicalisation of dying and increasing access to high-technology interventions at the end of life have led to multiplying ethical challenges in decision-making in biomedical settings around the world. Bioethical frameworks and models exist to aid healthcare professionals and teams in navigating complex ethico-clinical decision-making processes. Five different framewo...
A bioethical perspective on the meanings behind a wish to hasten death: a meta-...
Borges, Paulo J.; Hernández-Marrero, Pablo; Pereira, Sandra MartinsBackground: The expressions of a “wish to hasten death” or “wish to die” raise ethical concerns and challenges. These expressions are related to ethical principles intertwined within the field of medical ethics, particularly in end-of-life care. Although some reviews were conducted about this topic, none of them provides an in-depth analysis of the meanings behind the “wish to hasten death/die” based specifical...