Medical Aid in Dying: Europe's Urgent Medico-Ethical Challenge

Uwe Güth; Shaun McMillan; Edouard Battegay

doi:10.3389/ijph.2023.1606538

Medical Aid in Dying: Europe's Urgent Medico-Ethical Challenge

Int J Public Health. 2023 Sep 5:68:1606538. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2023.1606538. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Uwe Güth^{1

2}, Shaun McMillan², Edouard Battegay^{3

4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
² Department of Breast Surgery, Brust-Zentrum Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.
³ International Center for Multimorbidity and Complexity in Medicine (ICMC), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁵ Merian Iselin Klinik Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

No abstract available

Keywords: assisted suicide; ethical issues; euthanasia; medical aid in dying; physician assisted suicide.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Europe
Humans
Suicide, Assisted*

Grants and funding

The International Center for Multimorbidity and Complexity in Medicine (ICMC) is partially funded by a grant from the Zurich Academy of International Medicine and the Merian Iselin Klinik to EB and collaborators.