Advance Directives and Living Wills

Advance directives are documents which enable people to decide what will happen to them, or who will make decisions on their behalf, if a time comes when they are no longer able to participate in discussions or decisions about their own health care. This paper briefly examines the underlying philoso...

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Autor principal: Lush, Denzil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Physicians of London 1993
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Medical Ethics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5396760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8377162
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description Advance directives are documents which enable people to decide what will happen to them, or who will make decisions on their behalf, if a time comes when they are no longer able to participate in discussions or decisions about their own health care. This paper briefly examines the underlying philosophy of advance directives, and the manner in which they have evolved in the United States. It concludes by considering their legal status in the United Kingdom which, until recently, was not entirely clear.
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spelling pubmed-53967602019-01-22 Advance Directives and Living Wills Lush, Denzil J R Coll Physicians Lond Medical Ethics Advance directives are documents which enable people to decide what will happen to them, or who will make decisions on their behalf, if a time comes when they are no longer able to participate in discussions or decisions about their own health care. This paper briefly examines the underlying philosophy of advance directives, and the manner in which they have evolved in the United States. It concludes by considering their legal status in the United Kingdom which, until recently, was not entirely clear. Royal College of Physicians of London 1993-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5396760/ /pubmed/8377162 Text en © Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1993 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits non-commercial use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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