Ebook: Lebensbeendende Handlungen: Ethik, Medizin und Recht zur Grenze von ‚Töten‘ und ‚Sterbenlassen‘

The term "life-ending actions" encompasses a broad range of practices ranging from indisputable acts of homicide to various forms of withholding medical intervention. The interdisciplinary papers in this volume seek to delineate the critical ethical and legal boundaries between killing a patient and letting him or her die. It thus augments clinical confidence in decisions about terminal care.