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Comparing Two Euthanasia Protocols: The Free University of Amsterdam Academic Hospital and the Medical Center of Alkmaar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Gerrit K. Kimsma
Affiliation:
family practitioner and philosopher who lectures on family practice medicine and medical ethics in the departments of Family and Nursing Home Medicine and Philosophy and Medical Ethics at the Free University of Amsterdam.
Evert Van Leeuwen
Affiliation:
Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy and Medical Ethics, Free University of Amsterdam.

Extract

Hospital ethics committees in The Netherlands have had the unique responsibility of developing euthanasia policies for their institutions. Although each policy necessarily reflects a particular facility, family resemblances necessarily remain. In the interest of ethics committees outside The Netherlands that may soon face the same challenge, two such policies are presented here accompanied by commentary high-lighting their similarities and differences.

Type
Ethics Committees at Work
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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