PROXY CONSENT AND COUNTERFACTUALS
When patients are in vegetative states and their lives are maintained by medical devices, their surrogates might offer proxy consents on their behalf in order to terminate the use of the devices. The so-called ‘substituted judgment thesis’ has been adopted by the courts regularly in order to determi...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2008
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Bioethics
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 16-24 |
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substituted judgment
B proxy consent B vegetative states B Counterfactuals B Euthanasia |
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