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Making medical decisions for the profoundly mentally disabled /

A legal and moral analysis of medical decision making on behalf of those with such severe cognitive impairments that they cannot exercise self-determination.In this book, Norman Cantor analyzes the legal and moral status of people with profound mental disabilities--those with extreme cognitive impai...

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Main Author: Cantor, Norman L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Series:Basic bioethics
Subjects:
Mental health laws > United States.
Medical ethics > United States > Decision making.
Informed consent (Medical law) > United States.
Insanity (Law) > United States.
Conservatorships > United States.
PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General
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