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Swedish Law and Neonatal Intensive Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Bertil Widman
Bertil Widman
Affiliation:
National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm
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Extract

Over a number of centuries, philosophers, theologians, and other scientists have debated upon what is meant by a living person. The reverse — i.e., what is meant by a dead person — has not been considered so difficult to define. The questions of when life begins and when death takes place, and of what criteria should be applied in these connections, involve several difficult considerations — ethical, practical, and legal.

Type
The Ethics of NIC
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 7 , Supplement S1 , January 1991 , pp. 143 - 145
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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