Healthcare Decision-Making and the Law

Autonomy, Capacity and the Limits of Liberalism

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Law, Medical Law & Legislation, Health & Well Being, Medical
Cover of the book Healthcare Decision-Making and the Law by Mary Donnelly, Cambridge University Press
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Author: Mary Donnelly ISBN: 9780511993626
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: November 18, 2010
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Mary Donnelly
ISBN: 9780511993626
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: November 18, 2010
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

This analysis of the law's approach to healthcare decision-making critiques its liberal foundations in respect of three categories of people: adults with capacity, adults without capacity and adults who are subject to mental health legislation. Focusing primarily on the law in England and Wales, the analysis also draws on the law in the United States, legal positions in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland and on the human rights protections provided by the ECHR and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Having identified the limitations of a legal view of autonomy as primarily a principle of non-interference, Mary Donnelly questions the effectiveness of capacity as a gatekeeper for the right of autonomy and advocates both an increased role for human rights in developing the conceptual basis for the law and the grounding of future legal developments in a close empirical interrogation of the law in practice.

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This analysis of the law's approach to healthcare decision-making critiques its liberal foundations in respect of three categories of people: adults with capacity, adults without capacity and adults who are subject to mental health legislation. Focusing primarily on the law in England and Wales, the analysis also draws on the law in the United States, legal positions in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland and on the human rights protections provided by the ECHR and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Having identified the limitations of a legal view of autonomy as primarily a principle of non-interference, Mary Donnelly questions the effectiveness of capacity as a gatekeeper for the right of autonomy and advocates both an increased role for human rights in developing the conceptual basis for the law and the grounding of future legal developments in a close empirical interrogation of the law in practice.

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