Rosamond Pinto, Maria Cristina2019-09-252019-09-252015-08-1920081173-2571http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/225415"The medical evolution in the last decades has been extraordinary. The knowledge of diseases, its diagnosis and therapy has fascinated the medical and scientific community. Compared to the beginning of the 20th century with the significant medical improvements in the last 50 years new ethical considerations have been considered such as criteria for initiation of lifesustaining treatment which developed with proper ethical considerations, as well as criteria for withholding life-sustaining treatment."engWith permission of the license/copyright holderMolecular EraMedical EducationLawAIDSAbortionBioethicsMedical ethicsHealth ethicsCommunity ethicsEducation and ethicsArticle