The Ethical Requirement to Provide Hydration and Nutrition—Reply
- 26 June 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 166 (12) , 1324-1325
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.166.12.1324-b
Abstract
In reply The central claim of our Commentary was that the right to refuse an intervention does not depend on the “artificiality” of the intervention.1 Baumgartner does not offer a refutation of this claim. His letter, therefore, amounts to an assertion that the incapacitated patient's right to refuse hydration and nutrition violates some unspecified “fundamental truth and morality.”This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: