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Significance of past statements: speech act theory
In W v M, a judge concluded that M's past statements should not be given weight in a best interests assessment. Several commentators in the ethics literature have argued this approach ignored M's autonomy. In this short article I demonstrate how the basic tenets of speech act theory can be...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3756463/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23632009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2012-100911 |