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Choosing to Stop a Heart: The Ethical Status of Deactivating an Implantable Cardiac Device

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2019

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Footnotes

This CQ department is dedicated to bringing noted bioethicists together in order to debate some of the most perplexing contemporary bioethics issues. Readers are invited to contact editors D. Michah Hester at hesterm@uams.ed or Alissa H. Swota at aswota@unf.edu with their thoughts on this debate or with suggestions for debate topics and interlocutors