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Can procedural and substantive elements of decision-making be reconciled in assessments of mental capacity?

Capacity legislation aims to protect individual autonomy and avoid undue paternalism as far as possible, partly through ensuring patients are not deemed to lack capacity because they make an unwise decision. To this end, the law employs a procedural test of capacity that excludes substantive judgmen...

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Autor principal: Banner, Natalie F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5120685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27891169
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1744552312000493