The Conflict between Patient Autonomy and the Dying Patient Law in Israel  

出　　处：《Journal of Philosophy Study》2017年第7期385-403,共19页哲学研究（英文版）

摘　　要：The Dying Patient Law is very controversial in Israel; there are opinions that the reason for the Law was to prevent the court from making decisions on the subject of end of life according to democratic principles. I decided to do this study because I wanted to know if the legal principles of the Law are democratic as were the court rulings or they are only, or mostly, Jewish principles and meant to prevent a democratic ruling in the courts. The work is a review of the Law and the Dying Patient Committee discussions as well as the chairman＇s writings on the Law, critique articles, and a review of democratic and bioethical principles. In this project, I have seen that the underlying basis of the Dying Patient Law is Jewish principles and not democratic principles, although Israel is a declared democratic state. This law illustrates the problem in Israel being both a democratic and a Jewish state. It raises the question： What can be done to resolve the conflict between the Jewish principles and democratic and/or bioethical principles？

关 键 词：medical ethics BIOETHICS dying patient END-OF-LIFE AUTONOMY 

分 类 号：Q-05[生物学] D90[政治法律—法学理论]