COUNTERFACTUAL REASONING IN SURROGATE DECISION MAKING – ANOTHER LOOK

Incompetent patients need to have someone else make decisions on their behalf. According to the Substituted Judgment Standard the surrogate decision maker ought to make the decision that the patient would have made, had he or she been competent. Objections have been raised against this traditional c...

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Authors: Johansson, Mats (Author) ; Broström, Linus (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2011
In: Bioethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 5, Pages: 244-249
Further subjects:B substituted judgment
B proxy consent
B Counterfactuals
B surrogate decision making
B Incompetence
B possible worlds semantics
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