• Medicine and law · Dec 2013

    Rethinking ethical and legal issues at the end of life in the U.K. and Brazil: a role for solidarity?

    • Carla A Arena Ventura, Ann Gallagher, Robert Jago, and Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes.
    • University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development, Brazil. caaventu@eerp.usp.br
    • Med Law. 2013 Dec 1;32(4):481-96.

    AbstractThere are currently high profile debates about legal and ethical aspects of end of life care and treatment in the U.K. and Brazil. Unlike some other jurisdictions, neither country has legalised assisted dying or euthanasia. We argue that it is timely to consider the issues from the perspectives of an evolving concept in bioethics, that of solidarity.

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