Clinical Ethics and Public Policy: Reflections on the Linares Case

Flaherty Roger and Lehmann Daniel J. , “Ending Life Support for Hopeless Cases Called Morally Right,” Chicago Sun-Times, Thursday, April 27, 1989, 5. In this article, William May and Joseph Cardinal Bernadin are cited as arguing that withdrawal of care is not active euthanasia, but removing burdensome treatment.

Cranford Ronald , Letter in Medical News.

Phillips Donald , “Care of the Dying: The Linares Case,” Hospital Ethics 5, no. 4 (July/month, 1989), 11.

Lehmann Dan and Flaherty Roger , “Linares Case Puts Heat on Assembly,” Chicago Sun-Times, May 1, 1989, 5, 49.

Phillips Donald , “The Care of the Dying: The Linares Case,” Hospital Ethics 5, no. 4 (July/August, 1989),11.

Beauchamp T.L. and Childress J. F. , Principles of Biomedical Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989, 3rd edition), pp. 67–306.

See: Graber G. and Thomasma D.C. , Theory and Practice in Medical Ethics (New York: Continuum, 1989), pp. 173–208.

Howard Wolinsky, “Doctor's Story: Linares Baby Defied Odds, He Says; Don't Punish Dad,” Chicago Sun-Times, April 28, 1989,1,4.

Johnson Kevin and Wright Hugh , “Father Disconnects Life Support, Son Dies,” USA Today, Thursday, April 27, 1989, 3A.

Phillips, loc. cit.

Phillips, loc. cit.

As noted by Phillips, loc. cit.

Raffin Thomas Shurkin Joel and Sinkler Wharton III , Intensive Care: Facing the Critical Choices (New York: W.H. Freeman and Co., 1989), pp. 105–172.

The Hastings Center, Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and the Care of the Dying (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.: The Hastings Center, 1987); Douglas Walton, Ethics of Withdrawal of Life-Support Systems (Westport, CN.: Greenwood Press, 1983), pp. 68–106, 203–216.

Pellegrino E. D. and Thomasma D.C. , For the Patient's Good: The Restoration of Beneficence in Health Care (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 148–171.

In re Conroy, 190 NJ Super 453, 464 A2d 303 (NJ App 1983) appeal docketed, No. 21, 642 (NJ Sup Ct); 98 N.J. 321, 486 A2d 1209 (1985).

Cohen M. Cohen E. and Thomasma D.C. , “Making Treatment Decisions for Permanently Unconscious Patients,” in Monagle J. and Thomasma D.C. (Eds.), Medical Ethics: A Guide for Health Professionals (Rockville, MD.: Aspen, 1988), pp. 186–204.

Legislative recommendations like this are being considered by the Cook County State's Attorney's Task Force on Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment that was established after the Linares case by the newly appointed State's Attorney, Cecil Partee. The examples I have included here are entirely my own, and are not intended to reflect the thinking of that committee even though I am appointed to the committee and to the subcommittee drafting such legislative proposals.