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Deciding for Others - The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making (Hardcover, New)
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Deciding for Others - The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in Philosophy and Health Policy
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This book is the most comprehensive treatment available of one of
the most urgent - and yet in some respects most neglected -
problems in bioethics: decision-making for incompetents. Part I
develops a general theory for making treatment and care decisions
for patients who are not competent to decide for themselves. It
provides an in-depth analysis of competence, articulates and
defends a coherent set of principles to specify suitable surrogate
decisionmakers and to guide their choices, examines the value of
advance directives, and investigates the role that considerations
of cost ought to play in decisions concerning incompetents. Part II
applies this theoretical framework to the distinctive problems of
three important classes of individuals, many of whom are
incompetent: minors, the elderly and psychiatric patients. The
authors' approach combines a probing analysis of fundamental issues
in ethical theory with a sensitive awareness of the concrete
realities of health care institutions and the highly personal and
individual character of difficult practical problems. Its broad
scope will appeal to health professionals, moral philosophers and
lawyers alike.
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