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The American public and the Terri Schiavo case.
- Source :
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Archives of internal medicine [Arch Intern Med] 2005 Dec 12-26; Vol. 165 (22), pp. 2580-4. - Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- An important question for physicians in the aftermath of the Terri Schiavo case is whether the effort of elected officials to intervene was a one-time anomaly or signals a future trend of elected officials being involved in cases where patients are in a vegetative or long-term comatose state. To try to answer this question, we used results from 12 national opinion surveys conducted in March and April 2005, when the Schiavo case was being debated. A review of these survey results showed that efforts by elected politicians to intervene in the Schiavo case were opposed by the majority of Americans. However, the public was more divided on the question of whether Schiavo's feeding tube should be removed. Opposition to removing Schiavo's feeding tube was associated with opposition to abortion. The results suggest that issues involved in cases like Schiavo's are not likely to disappear from the political agenda.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Adult
Advance Directives
Aged
Attitude to Death
Dissent and Disputes
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Politics
Religion
Right to Die ethics
Surveys and Questionnaires
Third-Party Consent ethics
Third-Party Consent legislation & jurisprudence
United States
Value of Life
Withholding Treatment ethics
Nutritional Support ethics
Persistent Vegetative State
Public Opinion
Right to Die legislation & jurisprudence
Withholding Treatment legislation & jurisprudence
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0003-9926
- Volume :
- 165
- Issue :
- 22
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Archives of internal medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 16344413
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.165.22.2580