Law, Ethics and Compromise at the Limits of Life: To Treat or Not to Treat?

ISBN-13: 9780415492805 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 212 str.

Richard Huxtable

Opis

This work focuses upon decisions to withhold or withdraw life-supporting treatment from incompetent patients. It offers a critical examination of the latest developments with a view to developing a new framework for resolving disputes in the clinic that is not only theoretically robust but also practically relevant.

Spis treści

1. Judging Law and Ethics at the Limits of Life  2. Law at the Limits of Life: Children, Welfare and Best Interests  3. Law at the Limits of Life: Adults, Incapacity and Precedent Autonomy  4. The Limits of Law at the Limits of Life: To Treat or Not to Treat?  5. Calculating the Value of Life at the Limits of Life  6. A Case for Compromise at the Limits of Life  7. Crafting Compromise: Courts or Clinical Ethics Committees?  8. Committees, Courts and Compromise at the Limits of Life

O autorze

Richard Huxtable is Reader in Medical Ethics & Law and Deputy Director of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol. His many publications include Euthanasia, Ethics and the Law: From Conflict to Compromise (Routledge-Cavendish, 2007) and (with Dickenson & Parker) The Cambridge Medical Ethics Workbook (CUP, 2nd edn, 2010). A longstanding contributor to clinical ethics support, Richard is also a Trustee of the National Council for Palliative Care and chair of its Ethics Forum.