This book is the most comprehensive treatment available of one of the most urgent--and yet in some respects most neglected--problems in bioethics: decisionmaking for incompetents. Part I develops a general theory for making treatment and care decisions for patients who are not competent to decide fo
Deciding for others : the ethics of surrogate decision making
โ Scribed by Buchanan, Allen E., 1948-
- Publisher
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-412) and index
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