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Parent topics
- Medical ethics [r]: The study of moral values as they apply to medicine. [e]
Subtopics
- Tony Bland [r]: (1970–1993) Liverpool FC fan who was injured during the Hillsborough disaster who entered a persistent vegetative state. A legal case brought to the judicial committee of the House of Lords (now the UK Supreme Court) allowed the hospital with the support of Bland's family to withdraw the life support machine keeping Bland alive. Bland became the first patient to be allowed to die under this change in English law. [e]
- Bland v. Airedale NHS Trust [r]: 1993 English legal case that allowed withdrawal of treatment for patients in a persistent vegetative state. [e]
- Supreme Court (United Kingdom) [r]: Generally the highest court of the United Kingdom, continuing the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords. [e]
- Euthanasia [r]: The act of assisting in the death of an animal or patient, often to end suffering for an incurable disease; a painless death; sometimes called a mercy killing which may or may not be legal. [e]