Deciding for Others
The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making
Part of Studies in Philosophy and Health Policy
- Authors:
- Allen E. Buchanan, University of Arizona
- Dan W. Brock, Brown University, Rhode Island
- Date Published: January 1990
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521311960
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This book is the most comprehensive treatment available of one of the most urgent - and yet in some respects most neglected - problems in bioethics: decision-making for incompetents. Part I develops a general theory for making treatment and care decisions for patients who are not competent to decide for themselves. It provides an in-depth analysis of competence, articulates and defends a coherent set of principles to specify suitable surrogate decisionmakers and to guide their choices, examines the value of advance directives, and investigates the role that considerations of cost ought to play in decisions concerning incompetents. Part II applies this theoretical framework to the distinctive problems of three important classes of individuals, many of whom are incompetent: minors, the elderly and psychiatric patients. The authors' approach combines a probing analysis of fundamental issues in ethical theory with a sensitive awareness of the concrete realities of health care institutions and the highly personal and individual character of difficult practical problems. Its broad scope will appeal to health professionals, moral philosophers and lawyers alike.
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- Date Published: January 1990
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521311960
- length: 444 pages
- dimensions: 214 x 138 x 29 mm
- weight: 0.52kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Theory:
1. Competence and incompetence
2. The primary ethical framework: patient-centered principles
3. Advance directives, personhood, and personal identity
4. Distributive justice and the incompetent
Part II. Application:
5. Minors
6. The elderly
7. The mentally ill
Looking forward
Appendix 1: living trust and nomination of conservatorship
Appendix 2: durable power of attorney for health care
Notes
Index.
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