Making medical decisions for the profoundly mentally disabled /

A legal and moral analysis of medical decision making on behalf of those with such severe cognitive impairments that they cannot exercise self-determination. In this book, Norman Cantor analyzes the legal and moral status of people with profound mental disabilities--those with extreme cognitive impa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cantor, Norman L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Colección:Basic bioethics.
Temas:
Mental health laws > United States.
Medical ethics > United States > Decision making.
Informed consent (Medical law) > United States.
Insanity (Law) > United States.
Conservatorships > United States.
Éthique médicale > États-Unis > Prise de décision.
Consentement éclairé (Droit médical) > États-Unis.
Tutelle et curatelle > États-Unis.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Conservatorships.
Informed consent (Medical law)
Insanity (Law)
Medical ethics > Decision making.
Mental health laws.
United States.
PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The moral status of the profoundly disabled: persons or something less?
  • 2. The profoundly disabled as rights holders: no rights, the same rights as the fully capacitated, or some rights?
  • 3. Who decides for the profoundly disabled?
  • 4. Defining the best interests of profoundly disabled persons
  • 5. Forced altruism
  • 6. The voice of the profoundly disabled person.

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