Incapacity and care : controversies in healthcare and research / edited by Helen Watt.

Date:
[2009], ©2009
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Publication/Creation

Oxford : The Linacre Centre, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

146 pages ; 21 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Incapacity and personhood : respecting the non-autonomous self / David Albert Jones -- From beneficence to love : adequate care for the mentally incapacitated / Aaron Kheriaty -- Human dignity and the intellectually disabled person : can prevention of harm justify sterilisation? / Anthony McCarthy -- Justifying research without consent / Helen Watt -- Non-voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands and Belgium / Wendy E. Hiscox -- The Mental Capacity Act 2005 : some ethical and legal issues / John Finnis -- PEG tubes in end-stage dementia : benefits and burdens / Johanna Valiquette -- Very quite people : ethical, medical, and theological perspectives on those in 'vegetative' and other hypokinetic states / A. A. Howsepian.

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    Medical Collection
    WM33.1 2009I36
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ISBN

  • 9780906561119
  • 0906561116