The Devil's Choice: Re-Thinking Law, Ethics, and Symptom Relief in Palliative Care |
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| Authors: | Roger S Magnusson PhD |
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| Institution: | Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. |
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| Abstract: | Health professionals do not always have the luxury of making "right" choices. This article introduces the "devil's choice" as a metaphor to describe medical choices that arise in circumstances where all the available options are both unwanted and perverse. Using the devil's choice, the paper criticizes the principle of double effect and provides a re-interpretation of the conventional legal and ethical account of symptom relief in palliative care. |
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