@article{ref1,
title="Medicine against Suicide: Sustaining Solidarity with Those Diminished by Illness and Debility",
journal="Christian bioethics",
year="2021",
author="Curlin, F.A. and Tollefsen, C.",
volume="27",
number="3",
pages="250-263",
abstract="The medical profession's increasing acceptance of &quot;physician aid-in-dying&quot;indicates the ascendancy of what we call the provider-of-services model for medicine, in which medical &quot;providers&quot;offer services to help patients maximize their &quot;well-being&quot;according to the wishes of the patient. This model contrasts with and contradicts what we call the Way of Medicine, in which medicine is a moral practice oriented to the patient's health. A steadfast refusal intentionally to harm or kill is a touchstone of the Way of Medicine, one unambiguously affirmed by Christians through the centuries. Moreover, physician aid-in-dying contradicts one of the distinctive contributions that the Christian era brought to medicine, namely, a taken-for-granted solidarity between medical practitioners and those suffering illness and disability. Insofar as medical practitioners cooperate in aid-in-dying, they contradict this solidarity and undermine the trust that patients need to allow themselves to be cared for by physicians when they are sick and debilitated. © 2021 The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of The Journal of Christian Bioethics, Inc. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1380-3603",
doi="10.1093/cb/cbab010",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cb/cbab010"
}