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Volume 352:2373-2375 June 9, 2005 Number 23
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Patients in a Persistent Vegetative State — A Dutch Perspective
Inez de Beaufort, Ph.D.

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He is 31 years old now — Henk-Jan, the son of Gerard and Ineke Stinissen. He is the son Ineke Stinissen never knew. In 1974, as the result of a dramatic medical error that occurred during emergency cesarean delivery, she was left in a persistent vegetative state. Through most of Henk-Jan's life, his mother's condition and treatment have been matters of an emotionally fraught public controversy. In 1985, his father sought publicity — in a television program called "How Long Should Dying Last?" — for his view that his wife's artificial nutrition and hydration should be stopped. In 1987, he . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Dr. de Beaufort is a professor of health care ethics at the Erasmus Medical Center of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.



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