Decision-making and Problems of Incompetence

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

1994
John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-471-94236-8 (ISBN)

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Reflecting the medical law issue of decision-making and the incapacitated patient, this volume addresses the problem in relation to both children and adults. It examines who may consent (or refuse consent) to medical treatment when a patient is unable to make the decision.

Decision-Making and Problems of Incompetence Edited by Andrew Grubb Reader in Medical Law, Executive Director School of Law and Centre of Medical Law and Ethics. Kings College London, UK The eighth volume in the series of Kings College Studies reflects the central importance in medical law and ethics of decision-making and the incapacitated patient. Drawing on recent court cases in America, Canada and the UK the book discusses areas of increasing social concern, such as the withdrawal of tube feeding from the persistently vegetative patient; the sterilisation of the mentally disabled, and who (if anyone) may decide to consent to medical treatment when a patient is incompetent. The profound and fundamental question of how society deals with and protects its vulnerable members is relevant to all who study medical ethics and the law, and the book will be of particular interest to medical and health care practitioners across all specialities, philosophers, medical sociologists and lawyers.

Partial table of contents: Comparative Legal Developments (D. Giesen). Mentally Incapacitated Adults and Decision-Making: The Law Commission's Project (B. Hoggett). An Ethical Framework for Surrogate Decision-Making (D. Brock). Determining Incompetence: Problems with the Function Test (J. Jackson). The Sterilisation of the Mentally Disabled: Competence, the Right to Reproduce and Discrimination (W. Cartwright). Paternalism, Care and Mental Illness (E. Matthews). Mental Disorder and Decision-Making: Respecting Autonomy in Substitute Judgments (C. Heginbotham). The Patient Self-Determination Act: The Medical Miranda! (M. Eby). Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.2.1994
Verlagsort	Chichester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	142 x 222 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
ISBN-10	0-471-94236-7 / 0471942367
ISBN-13	978-0-471-94236-8 / 9780471942368
Zustand	Neuware