Advance treatment directives and autonomy for incompetent patients
Subtitle: an international comparative survey of law and practice, with special attention to the Netherlands
By: Cristiano Vezzoni ; with a foreword by John Griffiths.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780773449800
Subjects: Advance directives (Medical care) -- Cross-cultural studies; Advance directives (Medical care) -- Law and legislation -- Cross-cultural studies; Advance Directives -- Netherlands; Advance Care Planning -- Netherlands; Advance Directive Adherence -- Netherlands; Advance Directives -- legislation & jurisprudence -- Netherlands
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The legal status of treatment directives : an international survey; title: The social practice of treatment directives : overview of the empirical literature and development of a systematic analytic framework; title: Legal and empirical information concerning treatment directives in the Netherlands; title: Empirical analysis of the social practice of treatment directives; title: The role of notaries in the social practice of treatment directives; title: The role of nursing home doctors in the social practice of treatment directives; title: The role of family doctors in the social practice of treatment directives.