Written advance directives: Theuth’s blessing ... or ... curse?
Tóm tắt
Advance directives are discussed from a philosophical standpoint and with reference to their relationship to informed consent. The necessity of an advance directive being truly informed is stressed. The author suggests that the validity of these instruments is made quite difficult when the particular context in which they find themselves is one which neither patient nor physician anticipated.
Tài liệu tham khảo
“Phaedrus.” In Plato: The Collected Dialogues, Ed. by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairus, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1978), pp. 475–525.
Ibid., Phaedr. 274c-75b.
Ibid., Phaedr. 276.
Loewy EH, Loewy RS (2000) The ethics of terminal care: orchestrating the end of life. Klüwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.