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Healthcare decision-making and the law : autonomy, capacity and the limits of liberalism /
This analysis of the law's approach to healthcare decision-making critiques its liberal foundations in respect of three categories of people: adults with capacity, adults without capacity and adults who are subject to mental health legislation. Focusing primarily on the law in England and Wales...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Cambridge law, medicine, and ethics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This analysis of the law's approach to healthcare decision-making critiques its liberal foundations in respect of three categories of people: adults with capacity, adults without capacity and adults who are subject to mental health legislation. Focusing primarily on the law in England and Wales, the analysis also draws on the law in the United States, legal positions in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland and on the human rights protections provided by the ECHR and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Having identified the limitations of a legal view of autonomy as primarily a principle of non-interference, Mary Donnelly questions the effectiveness of capacity as a gatekeeper for the right of autonomy and advocates both an increased role for human rights in developing the conceptual basis for the law and the grounding of future legal developments in a close empirical interrogation of the law in practice-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 320 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511992421 0511992424 9780511984884 051198488X 9780511993626 0511993625 0511990448 9780511990441 9780511760679 0511760671 9781107470927 1107470927 |