Precommitment: a misguided strategy for securing death with dignity

Precommitment is a seductive concept in bioethics. It is most popular as a strategy to resolve questions about the future use of life-sustaining treatment. The living will was an early focus of the death with dignity movement and its successor, the advance treatment directive, is central to medical...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Texas law review 2003-06, Vol.81 (7), p.1823-1847
1. Verfasser:	Dresser, Rebecca
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Advance Directive Adherence - ethics Advance directives Advance Directives - ethics Advance Directives - legislation & jurisprudence Advance Directives - statistics & numerical data Beneficence Bioethics Commitments Comprehension Decision making Decision Making - ethics Dementia Empirical Research Ethics Evaluation Studies as Topic Family Humans Jurisprudence Law Life Support Care - ethics Medical ethics Mental Competency Palliative care Paternalism - ethics Patients Personal Autonomy Philosophers Philosophy Physicians Quality of Life Right to die Terminal Care - ethics Terminal Care - standards Third-Party Consent - ethics Values Withholding Treatment - ethics
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