Title: Deciding for others :
Authors: Buchanan, Allen E.,; Brock, Dan W.
Date: 1989
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Physical description: xv, 422 pages : forms ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: R
Contents: Part I. Theory: Competence and incompetence ; The primary ethical framework: patient-centered principles ; Advance directives, personhood, and personal identity ; Distributive justice and the incompetent -- Part II. Application: Minors ; The elderly ; The mentally ill ; Looking forward -- Appendix 1: living trust and nomination of conservatorship -- Appendix 2: durable power of attorney for health care.
Notes: "This book deals with ... decision making for incompetents"--Pref.
Subject headings (LCSH): Bioethics--United States--Decision making.; Decision making--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.; Decision making--United States--Moral and ethical aspects.; Facsimiles.; Medical jurisprudence--Decision making--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.; Medical jurisprudence--United States--Decision making--Moral and ethical aspects.; Medicine--Decision making--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.; Medicine--United States--Decision making--Moral and ethical aspects.