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withholding versus withdrawing treatment: a standalone construct

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withholding versuswithdrawing treatment1 CONSTRUCTWithholding versusWILKINSON · CLINICAL ETHICS

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Clinical ethics

the question of whether stopping a life-sustaining treatment already begun differs morally from never starting it, examined here for intensive care.

In clinical ethics, withholding versus withdrawing treatment refers to the question of whether stopping a life-sustaining treatment already begun differs morally from never starting it, examined here for intensive care. This meaning comes from Wilkinson (2012) in Bioethics.[1]

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  1. Wilkinson, D., & Savulescu, J. (2012). A Costly Separation Between Withdrawing and Withholding Treatment in Intensive Care. Bioethics, 28(3), 127-137. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8519.2012.01981.x

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