| Description |
1 online resource (1 PDF file (pages 87-104)) |
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Biomedical Law and Ethics Library |
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Biomedical law and ethics library.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Transforming wrong into right: What is 'proper medical treatment'?; 3 What do we mean by 'proper' medical treatment?; 4 Papist potions and electric sex: A historical perspective on 'proper medical treatment'; 5 Moralising medicine: 'Proper medical treatment' and the role of ethics and law in medical decision-making; 6 Family perspectives on 'proper medical treatment' for people in prolonged vegetative and minimally conscious states |
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7 The medical exception and cosmetic surgery: Culpable doctors and harmful enhancement?8 Locating lawful abortion on the spectrum of 'proper medical treatment'; 9 Death on demand: 'Proper medical treatment'?; 10 Doctors' orders? Analysing appropriate medical treatment in mental health law; 11 The economics of 'proper medical treatment'; 12 Rationing, resource allocation, and appropriate medical treatment; 13 Comments and reflections on 'proper medical treatment': a case for coherent inconsistency; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Proper medical treatment is routinely defined, in law and in practice, as requiring the consent of the patient. Patients with disorders of consciousness (long-term 'coma') are unable to give or withhold consent because they are completely unconscious ('vegetative') or have only fleeting and occasional moments of consciousness ('minimally conscious'). They are completely (or largely) unaware of themselves and their environment. They cannot understand the situation they are in or the treatments on offer; they cannot retain information relevant to a decision to accept or to refuse a particular medical treatment, nor can they weigh up the pros and cons of any treatment. In England and Wales these patients, like others who lack the capacity to make some or all decisions because of learning disabilities or dementia, fall under the remit of section 5 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, which is designed to ensure that proper medical treatment can be provided to people who lack the capacity to consent to it without putting doctors at risk of criminal prosecution |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Version viewed January 15, 2016 |
| Subject |
Persistent vegetative state.
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Medical ethics.
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Persistent Vegetative State
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Family -- psychology
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Ethics, Medical
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Medical ethics.
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Persistent vegetative state.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kitzinger, Jenny, author
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| ISBN |
9781315744308 |
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1315744309 |
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9781317591726 |
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1317591720 |
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