Legal Capacity and Persons with Disabilities’ Struggle to Reclaim Control over Their Lives
Persons with disabilities face an ongoing struggle to reclaim power and control over their lives.
Autonomy
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Read more: There’s More to Decision-Making Capacity than Cognitive Function There’s More to Decision-Making Capacity than Cognitive Function
The doctrine of capacity is vague, normatively and medically challenging, and inconsistently applied.
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Read more: Legal and Ethical Analysis of Court-Ordered Ivermectin Treatment for COVID-19 Legal and Ethical Analysis of Court-Ordered Ivermectin Treatment for COVID-19
What are the implications of a court requiring a doctor to administer a drug they do not believe is medically indicated?
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Read more: “Actionability” and the Ethics of Communicating Results to Study Participants “Actionability” and the Ethics of Communicating Results to Study Participants
What data may be considered “actionable” for the physician to disclose to the patient, and how might this be done?
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Read more: Seniors’ Perspectives on Dementia and Decision-Making Seniors’ Perspectives on Dementia and Decision-Making
The study, which involved an online survey of and interviews with older adults, revealed a heterogeneity of ways of thinking about capacity.
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Read more: Terminally ill teen won historic court ruling to preserve her body after death Terminally ill teen won historic court ruling to preserve her body after death
By John Tingle The British media have been reporting and discussing widely the case of JS v M and F (Cryonic case), 10th November 2016 in the High Court of Justice, Family Division, [2016] EWHC 2859 (Fam). The case is the first in the UK and probably the world to deal with the issue of…
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Read more: “Marlise’s Law”: Protecting the Autonomy and Dignity of Brain-Dead Pregnant Women “Marlise’s Law”: Protecting the Autonomy and Dignity of Brain-Dead Pregnant Women
By Allison M. Whelan, J.D.Senior Fellow, Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy, University of California, Irvine School of LawGuest Blogger On March 12, 2015, Texas Representative Elliot Naishtat (Austin) filed HB 3183, which would repeal the Texas law that currently prohibits pregnant women from exercising their advance directives. The existing statute includes the following…
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Read more: Egg Freezing and Women’s Decision Making Egg Freezing and Women’s Decision Making
By David Orentlicher[Cross-posted at Health Law Profs and PrawfsBlawg.] The announcement by Apple and Facebook that they will cover the costs of egg freezing predictably provoked some controversy—predictably because it involves reproduction and also because too many people do not trust women to make reproductive decisions. Interestingly, the challenge to women’s autonomy can come from…
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Read more: Feb 13: Peter Ubel speaking to the HMS Division of Medical Ethics Feb 13: Peter Ubel speaking to the HMS Division of Medical Ethics
Please join the HMS Division of Medical Ethics for… “What behavioral science has taught me about the limits of autonomy” Peter A. Ubel, MD Professor of Business Administration and Medicine, Professor of Public Policy, Duke University Wednesday, February 13, 2013 1:00 – 2:30 PM 1st Floor Conference Room 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston RSVP to DME…