| Description |
203 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Preface / Andrew Grubb -- Introduction / Andrew Grubb -- Comparative legal developments / Dieter Giesen -- Mentally incapacitated adults and decision-making: the Law Commission's project / Brenda Hoggett -- An ethical framework for surrogate decision-making / Dan W. Brock -- Determining incompetence: problems with the function test / Jennifer Jackson -- The sterilisation of the mentally disabled: competence, the right to reproduce and discrimination / Will Cartwright -- Decision-making and the sterilisation of incompetent children / Mylene Beaupre -- Paternalism, care and mental illness / Eric Matthews -- Mental disorder and decision-making: respecting autonomy in substitute judgments / Christopher Heginbotham -- Recent American developments in the right to die: the Cruzan case, living wills, durable powers and family consent statutes / Ronald C. Link -- The Patient Self-Determination Act: the medical Miranda! / Maureen A. Eby |
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The right to die: withdrawal of tube feeding in the persistent vegetative state in Canada / H. E. Emson -- Advance directives and AIDS / The Terrence Higgins Trust Living Will Project |
| Analysis |
Great Britain |
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Medicine Law |
| Notes |
"Papers presented at the first Annual Conference of the UK Forum on Health Care Ethics and the Law held ... in April 1991"--Pref |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Informed consent (Medical law) -- Great Britain.
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Medical care -- Decision making.
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Right to die -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.
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Sick -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain.
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| Author |
Grubb, Andrew.
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UK Forum on Health Care Ethics and the Law. Conference (1st : 1991 : King's College)
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| LC no. |
93006187 |
| ISBN |
0471942367 |
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