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When others must choose : deciding for patients without capacity / [Task Force]
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Edité par New York State Task Force on Life and the Law - 1992
The clinical and social context for surrogate decisions. Deciding about treatment: rights and responsibilities under existing law. Ethical choices, values, and dilemmas. Deciding in advance. Initiating the surrogate's authority: the determination of incapacity. Identifying the surrogate. Guidance for surrogate decisions. Deciding for children and newborns. Bioethics review committees. Deciding for adults without surrogates. Patients with mental disabilities. The obligations of health care professionals. Responding to conscience objections. Medical futility: defining the limits of the duty to treat. Some special issues. Withdrawing and withholding treatment. The moral significance of intentions. Decisions about artificial nutrition and hydration. Euthanasia. Merging the DNR law with policies for surrogate decisions.
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