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An Ethical Assessment of Intensive Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2009

Celine Marsden
Celine Marsden
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University of Southern California
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Abstract

Any evaluation of intensive care must include an ethical assessment of that technology. This allows us to consider the use of technologyin light of the ends that we desire. The most pressing ethical issues in intensive care are: forgoing life-sustaining treatment, dehumanization of patients and staff within the technological environment, and the allocation of the technology that is integral to intensive care.

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Special Section: Intensive Care: Where Are We?
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , Summer 1992 , pp. 408 - 418
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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