Europe PMC

This website requires cookies, and the limited processing of your personal data in order to function. By using the site you are agreeing to this as outlined in our privacy notice and cookie policy.

Legal update.

Author information

Affiliations

  • 1. Health Law Institute, Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Delaware, USA.
      Authors
    • Pope TM 1
    (1 author)

The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 01 Jan 2010, 21(1):83-85
PMID: 20465079 

Abstract 

This column concisely reviews: significant legal developments concerning medical futility and assisted suicide; three late-2009, early 2010 court cases involving neonatal medical futility disputes; and a number of cases involving the criminal enforcement of assisted suicide laws, as well as recent court cases and legislation aimed to legalize assisted suicide.

Similar Articles 

To arrive at the top five similar articles we use a word-weighted algorithm to compare words from the Title and Abstract of each citation.