Withholding and Withdrawing Life-prolonging Medical Treatment
Guidance for Decision Making
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Beschreibung
* An authoritative book on one of the most fundamental andcontentious issues for health care professionals
* Fully updated to include provisions of the Mental Capacity Act(April 2007); the latest policy on advance directives and theimpact of the Human Rights Act on such decisions
* Provides guidance on the appointment of welfare attorneys tomake health care decisions once capacity is lost
* Discusses recent cases, including Burke, baby MB, andWyatt
* Written by medical ethics professionals in consultation withthe appropriate medical and legal experts and in agreement with theGeneral Medical Council's guidelines
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"Should become obligatory reading for any ethicist, politician orjurist who focuses on end-of-life decision making."
Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy, 2008
"The report bears three intriguing strengths: (1) The ethicalargumentation is impressively clear, consistent and convincing...(2) The ethical argumentation is backed up by constant referencesto recent legal cases and decisions and to the latest legislation.(3) The structure of the book is highly transparent, the style isclearly written and easy to read, and throughout the whole book thereader is spoiled with precise summaries of the main arguments andtheses. Due to these strengths, the BMA guidance paper not onlyprovides a comprehensive overview of the legal position inScotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland and advances thedebate by clear ethical arguments in those areas that are notaddressed by the present law. It also serves as a role model forother European countries which seem to fall far behind such anelaborated position paper and where doctors still muddle throughthe complexity of end-of-life decision-making in everyday clinicallife...
... The BMA report should become an obligatory reading for anyethicist, politician or jurist who focuses on end-of-life decisionmaking and serves as a helpful guidance for any doctor concernedwith decisions about life-prolonging treatments in clinical life" -Matthis Synofzik, Tubingen, Germany, Med Health Care and Philos(2007)
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