Advance Directives

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lack, Peter (Editor), Biller-Andorno, Nikola (Editor), Brauer, Susanne (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 54
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; Public health.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Public Health.

This volume gives an overview on the currently debated ethical issues regarding advance directives from an international perspective. It focuses on a wider understanding of the known and widely accepted concept of patient self-determination for future situations. Although advance directives have bee...