Continuous deep sedation and the doctrine of double effect: Do physicians not intend to make the patient unconscious until death if they gradually increase the sedatives?

Continuous deep sedation (CDS) has the effect of making the patient unconscious until death, and that it has this effect is clearly an undesirable aspect of CDS. However, some authors have recently maintained that many physicians do not intend this effect when practicing CDS. According to these auth...

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Veröffentlicht in:Bioethics 2020-11, Vol.34 (9), p.977-983
1. Verfasser: Arima, Hitoshi
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