Parity Arguments for ‘Physician Aid-in-Dying’ (PAD) for Psychiatric Disorders: Their Structure and Limits
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Kious and Battin (K&B) argue that psychiatric PAD (PPAD) should be legal in the US, based on a ‘parity’ argument (Kious and Battin 2019). This is the most popular approach to argue for PPAD (Cholbi...
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- Authors
- Nicolini, M. E., Gastmans, C., & Kim, S. Y. H.
- Affiliations
- KU Leuven (BE)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kim, Scott Y. H.
- Venue
- The American Journal of Bioethics
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2019-09-26
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 3-7
- ISSN
- 1526-5161 (ISSN-L)
- 1536-0075
- OpenAlex
- W2977058973
- Cited by
- 10
- References
- 51
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 3
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- lirias.kuleuven.be
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- The American Journal of Bioethics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Lirias (KU Leuven) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative and Oncologic Care
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Keywords
- physician-assisted death, mental illness, parity argument, euthanasia, assisted suicide
- MeSH terms
- Mental Disorders, Humans, Morals, Psychiatry, Suicide
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