Advance Directives: Rethinking Regulation, Autonomy & Healthcare Decision-Making

• Main Author: Chan, Hui Yun (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 76
• Subjects: Bioethics.; Medical laws and legislation.; Law-Philosophy.; Law.; Medical Law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

This book offers a new perspective on advance directives through a combined legal, ethical and philosophical inquiry. In addition to making a significant and novel theoretical contribution to the field, the book has an interdisciplinary and international appeal. The book will help academics, healthc...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The making of advance directives
• Legal responses to the challenges of making advance directives
• Supported decision-making: an approach to advance directives
• A supported decision-making model for advance directives
• Regulating advance directives.