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DEVOIR CONSERVER VIE [1 record]

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Record 1 2005-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Health Law
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

There is a potential conflict between the physician's ethical duty to preserve human life and the possibility that prolonged extraordinary measures taken to save an infant may only prolong its suffering and leave the parents with an infant who dies anyway ...

CONT

... a physician may not hasten the death of a patient, not only because of his duty to preserve life, but because he has no right to destroy the property of another ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la santé
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

L'auteur examine les dispositions du Code criminel relatives à l'homicide et au devoir de préserver la vie [ ... ]

Key term(s)
  • obligation de préserver la vie humaine
  • devoir de conserver la vie humaine
  • obligation de conserver la vie humaine
  • devoir de préserver la vie humaine
  • obligation de préserver la vie
  • devoir de conserver la vie
  • obligation de conserver la vie

Spanish

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