Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] Euthanasia (Legal Part - Today's Positive Rights, Special Parts) |
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Original language | Italian |
Title of host publication | Enciclopedia di bioetica e scienza giuridica |
Pages | 1002-1022 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Abstract
[Autom. eng. transl.] the Abstract can be effectively represented by the Summary: 1. The notion of euthanasia and its boundaries. - 2. The particular rank of the good represented by human life and the reasons for its unavailability. - 3. The assessment of death. - 4. Distinction with respect to abstention from disproportionate therapeutic treatments. - 5. The relationship with individual autonomy. - 6. The current refusal to apply proportionate therapies. - 7. Interruption of therapeutic treatments and advance declarations of treatment: the role of the reference to proportionality. - 8. On some tendencies intended to legitimize practices of omission euthanasia and on the interpretation of art. 32 of the Constitution - 9. The non-therapeutic character of hydration and nutrition. - 10. The risk of pressure to stand back against patients in a state of unsolvable existential precariousness. - 11. The problem of euthanasia in the prenatal and neonatal fields.
Keywords
- consenso nell'attività terapeutica
- eutanasia
- proporzionalità delle terapie
- rifiuto delle terapie