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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Autor principal: Gordon, Joanne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2013
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Withdrawing and Withholding Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
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
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description 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 used to challenge the inherent assumption that past statements represent an individual's beliefs, choices or decisions. I conclude that speech act theory, as a conceptual tool, has a valuable contribution to make to this debate.
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spelling pubmed-37564632013-08-30 Significance of past statements: speech act theory Gordon, Joanne J Med Ethics Withdrawing and Withholding Artificial Nutrition and Hydration 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 used to challenge the inherent assumption that past statements represent an individual's beliefs, choices or decisions. I conclude that speech act theory, as a conceptual tool, has a valuable contribution to make to this debate. BMJ Publishing Group 2013-09 2013-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3756463/ /pubmed/23632009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2012-100911 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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