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Seeking Certainty? Judicial Approaches to the (Non-)Treatment of Minimally Conscious Patients

A modest, but growing, body of case law is developing around the (non-)treatment of patients in the minimally conscious state. We sought to explore the approaches that the courts take to these decisions. Using the results of a qualitative analysis, we identify five key features of the rulings to dat...

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Autores principales: Huxtable, Richard, Birchley, Giles
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5790158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28431117
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwx014