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Unreasonable reasons: normative judgements in the assessment of mental capacity

The recent Mental Capacity Act (2005) sets out a test for assessing a person's capacity to make treatment choices. In some cases, particularly in psychiatry, it is unclear how the criteria ought to be interpreted and applied by clinicians. In this paper, I argue that this uncertainty arises bec...

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Autor principal: Banner, Natalie F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3472025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22995005
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2012.01914.x