Sterbehilfe

Physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia and palliative sedation: attitudes and knowledge of medical students

“…This complies with the results of a study from 2004: only 20% of medical students surveyed in Berlin could imagine a situation in which they would be prepared to kill a patient [12]. Similar results could be seen in a survey by the German Medical Association from 2009; whereas in a study by Zenz et al [18], 32.1% of the doctors surveyed expressed a favorable attitude towards euthanasia.…”

Risks and errors in medicine. Concept and evaluation of an optional study module with integrated teaching of ethical, legal and communicative competencies

“…This coincides with students’ experiences and feedback from courses on clinical and ethical issues at the end of life in which the inclusion of legal content was requested by the students [17], [18]. In this context, it should be emphasized that the content learned predominantly in the field of forensic medicine, such as autopsy or medical forensic aspects, covers something other than the legal aspects of the doctor-patient-relationship taught by the authors in the course.…”

Zum Wandel der Einstellungen zur aktiven Sterbehilfe - eine modernisierungstheoretische ländervergleichende Mehrebenenanalyse

“…Deutsche Stiftung für Patientenschutz, 2013). Im wissenschaftlichen Bereich wird vor allem in den Disziplinen Medizin, Recht, Theologie und Ethik das Thema der Sterbehilfe betrachtet (zum Beispiel Antoine, 2004;Bosshard, 2005;Schildmann et al, 2004). Die meisten empirischen Studien zum Thema Sterbehilfe stammen von Medizinern und Medizinerinnen, die kaum theoretische Bezüge und Konzepte für die empirischen Untersuchungen zur Verfügung stellen (vgl.…”