Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 02 | Nº 3

SEPTEMBER 2012

Death with dignity: dialogues between ethics, the law and the situation

House M.D. | EEUU | 2004-2012

Abstract

In this article we will reflect on Wilson’s decision to let himself die and refuse any medical treatment in light of the advanced state of his cancer. This decision is pondered from both the deontological ethics of Kant and from the ethical consequentialism, as an erroneous decision. Finally, within the fictional context of the series, this is expressed as a dialogue in line with the recently approved Dignified Death Law, in force in Argentina as of this year.

Key words: Ethics | Euthanasia | Dignified death

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: La muerte digna: diálogos entre la ética, la ley, la situación

NOTAS

Editorial House M.D.: Ethics as a Situation House M.D. | EEUU | 2004-2012
On the irony of contemporary medical discourse House M.D. | EEUU | 2004-2012
Ethics and clinical cases House M.D. | EEUU | 2004-2012
A clinical hypothesis regarding Gregory House’s affliction House M.D. | EEUU | 2004-2012
Bioethics and Opera. House, an unknown Prince for Tur-Andie-Dot House M.D. | EEUU | 2004-2012
Family Presence During Resuscitation as it is Portrayed on Prime-Time Media House M.D. | EEUU | 2004-2012; Grey’s Anatomy | EEUU | 2005-; Medic | EEUU | 1954-1956

Etica y Cine (Ethics & Films) is a Peer Reviewed Quarterly Journal Edited by
Department of Psychoanalysis and Department of Deontology, School of Psychology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Department of Psychology, Ethics and Human Rights, School of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
With the collaboration of:
Center for Medical Ethics (CME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Under the auspicious of:
The International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

Death with dignity: dialogues between ethics, the law and the situation

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