Can complex legislation solve our end-of-life problems?
| Autor: | Brendan P. Minogue, James E. Reagan |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Health (social science)
media_common.quotation_subject Living Wills Legislation State (polity) Political science Humans State Interest Ethics Medical media_common Law and economics Ohio Balance (metaphysics) Ethics Committees Terminal Care Actuarial science Health Policy Directive Life Support Care Issues ethics and legal aspects Withholding Treatment Legal opinion Personal Autonomy Government Regulation Ethics Committees Clinical Advance Directives |
| Zdroj: | Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees. 3(1) |
| ISSN: | 0963-1801 |
| Popis: | Over a 20-year period, the United States has developed a consensus of legal opinion concerning living wills and other advance directives. At the heart of this consensus are two interconnected principles. First, the state should minimally interfere with the wishes of patients and surrogates and the decisions of physicians about foregoing life-sustaining treatments. Second, state interference is permissible for the sake of protecting a compelling state interest. The overwhelming majority of states with advance directive laws have attained this balance of minimal interference and compelling state interest in developing their laws. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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