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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |