Abstract
This entry underlines the enormous importance of ethical decision making in order to draw attention to the need to establish an appropriate balance between autonomy and self/other-oriented responsibilities in the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) context.
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Jácomo, A., Teixeira, C., Carvalho, A.S. (2015). Resuscitation (Incl. DNR). In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_385-1
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