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

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-00976-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 76, 173 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine

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, healthcare professionals, legal practitioners and the educated reader to understand the challenges of creating and implementing advance directives, anticipate clinical realities, and preparing advance directives that reflect a higher degree of assurance in terms of implementation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chan, Hui Yun

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Hui Yun Chan is a lecturer at the School of Law, University of Hertfordshire, UK.  She completed her PhD at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Chan's PhD thesis examined the legal and ethical challenges in implementing advance directives in medical treatment and proposed a supportive measure to address the complexities. In addition to teaching in Medical Law and Ethics, Law of Torts and research methods, Chan's research interest is in clinical ethics, medico-legal issues in end-of-life, health policy and emerging issues in public health. She has published on the subject of advance directives and reviewed books for Medical Law Review.