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    Dealing with requests for euthanasia: a qualitative study investigating the experience of general practitioners
    with J.-J. Georges and B. D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen
    Journal of Medical Ethics 34 (3): 150-155. 2008.
    Background: Caring for terminally ill patients is a meaningful task, however the patient’s suffering can be a considerable burden and cause of frustration.Objectives: The aim of this study is to describe the experiences of general practitioners in The Netherlands in dealing with a request for euthanasia from a terminally ill patient.Methods: The data, collected through in-depth interviews, were analysed according to the constant comparative method.Results: Having to face a request for euthanasia…Read more
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    Legal physician-assisted dying in Oregon and the Netherlands: evidence concerning the impact on patients in "vulnerable" groups
    with M. P. Battin, A. van der Heide, L. Ganzini, and B. D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen
    Journal of Medical Ethics 33 (10): 591-597. 2007.
    Background: Debates over legalisation of physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia often warn of a “slippery slope”, predicting abuse of people in vulnerable groups. To assess this concern, the authors examined data from Oregon and the Netherlands, the two principal jurisdictions in which physician-assisted dying is legal and data have been collected over a substantial period.Methods: The data from Oregon comprised all annual and cumulative Department of Human Services reports 1998–2006 and three…Read more
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    Interactive technology assessment and wide reflective equilibrium
    with R. P. B. Reuzel, Hamj ten Have, and P. F. de Vries Robbe
    Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 26 (3): 245-261. 2001.
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    Health technology assessment: trying to bring empirical and ethical inquiry together (review)
    Poiesis and Praxis 2 (2-3): 195-206. 2004.
    A comprehensive assessment of a health technology requires that a wide variety of questions are addressed. These range from whether the use of a technology results in achievement of its intended effects (e.g., better tumour control, pain relief, improved mobility, etc.) at acceptable costs and without incurring undue risks to the patient, to whether its use may challenge existing social arrangements and values (e.g., individual responsibility for preserving good health, the value of human life, …Read more
  • Morality Foundation for Competent Professionals
    In Désirée Verweij, Peter Olsthoorn & Eva van Baarle (eds.), Ethics and Military Practice, Brill. 2022.
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    Structure and microstructure of epitaxial SrnFenO3n−1films
    with O. I. Lebedev †, J. Verbeeck, N. Hayashi, T. Terashima, and M. Takano
    Philosophical Magazine 84 (36): 3825-3841. 2004.
  • Stoop . "Om het volvoeren van een christelijke staatkunde" De Anti-Revolutio- naire Partij in het Interbellum (review)
    Revue Belge de Philologie Et D’Histoire 81 (2): 603-604. 2003.