Clarifying and defending the endorsed life approach to surrogate decision-making

In our paper, we pointed to several problems, both practical and theoretical, with the Substituted Judgment Standard (SJS)—at least when the SJS is understood as literally requiring that surrogates always make the decision that the incompetent patient would have made, if competent.1 These problems s...

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Authors: Phillips, John Arnold Douglas (Author) ; Wendler, David (Author)
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Published: BMJ Publ. 2015
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 41, Issue: 9, Pages: 736-738
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