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International Journal of Science, Strategic Management and Technology
The concept of living wills has emerged as a significant aspect of modern healthcare jurisprudence and constitutional morality. A living will or advance directive allows individuals to determine their medical treatment preferences in situations where ...
Debosmita Banerjee
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The concept of living wills has emerged as a significant aspect of modern healthcare jurisprudence and constitutional morality. A living will or advance directive allows individuals to determine their medical treatment preferences in situations where ...
Debosmita Banerjee
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Enforcing living wills in South Africa
South African Law JournalThis article examines some theoretical and practical issues concerning the implementation of living wills, also known as advance directives, on the assumption that legislation on the general issue of physician-assisted dying in South Africa is unlikely ...
E. Bonthuys, Anton van Dalsen
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Banca Impresa Società, 2011
The paper analyses the legal provisions in place in the UK and forthcoming in the US and the EU related to restructuring and resolution plans. These are plans that banks should have already in place in case of a crisis and are commonly known as living wills.
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The paper analyses the legal provisions in place in the UK and forthcoming in the US and the EU related to restructuring and resolution plans. These are plans that banks should have already in place in case of a crisis and are commonly known as living wills.
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Advance directives and Living Wills
NeuroRehabilitation, 2005The article focuses on the philosophical, ethical and juridical problems concerning Advance directives and Living Wills (underlining analogies and differences). The author makes a critical comparison between the theories supporting Living Wills (the liberal theory appealing to the principle of self-determination and the utilitarian theory on the ...
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Second Thoughts on Living Wills
The Hastings Center Report, 1991Advance directives such as living wills are attractive in that they give us a sense of control over our futures. But they also tend to obscure conflicts between a patient's competent wishes and later, incompetent interests. They allow caregivers to avoid evaluating quality of life in assessing the best interests of incompetent patients.
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Living wills: the ethical dilemmas
Critical Care Nurse, 1989Advanced technology has created various means to prolong life, along with the supposed obligation to use those technologies. Often costly, these technologies may have little or no impact on the outcomes of illness. When and how that technology should be used may result in conflict. By writing a living will, some persons have said "Thanks, but no thanks"
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Palliative Medicine, 1993
There is considerable debate surrounding the provision of life-sustaining treatment to those unable themselves to give consent. This article examines the issues involved from a legal perspective, and discusses two proposed solutions: the 'advance directive' and the 'health care proxy'.
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There is considerable debate surrounding the provision of life-sustaining treatment to those unable themselves to give consent. This article examines the issues involved from a legal perspective, and discusses two proposed solutions: the 'advance directive' and the 'health care proxy'.
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[Relevance of Living Wills During Post-Resuscitation Care].
Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, 2017M. Christ +5 more
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