Life and Death Choices after Cruzan
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Law, Medicine and Health Care
- Vol. 19 (1-2) , 9-12
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.1991.tb01787.x
Abstract
This issue of Law, Medicine & Health Care on life or death choices, so skillfully put together by Alexander Capron and based on ASLM's conference last September chaired by Professor Capron and Joanne Lynn, grew out of the Supreme Court's decision in Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health.At the time of the Supreme Court decision Nancy Cruzan was in a persistent vegetative state (PVS), a condition in which a person exhibits motor-reflexes but evinces no indications of significant cognitive function. Nancy Cruzan's biological existence was being sustained by the provision of technological feeding and hydration. Hospital employees refused, without court approval, to honor her parents’ request to withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration.Keywords
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