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Potentially Life-Saving Law Should Not be Trumped by Individual or Corporate Conscience
American Journal of Bioethics 26 (7):86-88 (2026)
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The proposals of Wasserman et al. (2026) amount to a (seismic) contention that much of the law relating to the withdrawal and withholding of life-sustaining treatment should be abandoned, and that...Author's Profile
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A Defense of Institutional Conscience Rights for Secular Hospitals: Philosophical Justifications and Practical Applications.Jason Adam Wasserman, Abram Brummett & Mark Christopher Navin - 2026 - American Journal of Bioethics 26 (7):45-58.
Conscientious Objection to Aggressive Interventions for Patients in a Vegetative State.Jason Adam Wasserman, Abram L. Brummett, Mark Christopher Navin & Daniel Londyn Menkes - 2023 - American Journal of Bioethics:1-12.
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Withdrawing treatment from patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness: the presumption in favour of the maintenance of life is legally robust.Charles Foster - 2021 - Journal of Medical Ethics 47 (2):119-120.
The presumption against taking life.Richard L. Trammell - 1978 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 3 (1):53-67.
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