Bücher online kaufen
Advance Care Decision Making in Germany and Italy
-0 %
A Comparative, European and International Law Perspective
Paperback
Print on Demand | Lieferzeit: Print on Demand - Lieferbar innerhalb von 3-5 Werktagen I
Artikel-Nr:
9783642405549
Veröffentl:
2013
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
11.12.2013
Seiten:
292
Autor:
Stefania Negri
Gewicht:
446 g
Format:
235x155x16 mm
Serie:
41, Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Deutsches, Europäisches und Internationales Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht und Bioethik der Universitäten Heidelberg und Mannheim
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
What is the situation of people who are unable to make decisions due to a physical or mental change? This book gives impulses and answers to many ethical, economical and mainly legal questions which arise and are associated with the end of life. A universal human rights approach and the analysis of the relevant European law are put in front of the presentation of the national legal situations in Italy and Germany. The most topical and controversial issues concerning advance care planning are presented as well as a transnational economic analysis on the effects of advance care planning.
Discussing issues in advance care planning in the context of universal human rights and European law, this book addresses ethical, economic and legal questions associated with the end of life. Offers a transnational economic analysis of advance care planning._
Legal analysis from an international and comparative perspective
Foreword.- Universal Human Rights and End-of-Life Care.- Advance Health Care Directives under European Law and European Biolaw.- Advance Directives Regulation in Italy: Between Consent and Legal Rules.- Patient's autonomy according to German Law.- "Killing me softly": new questions about therapeutic self-determination in the Italian society and old answers from the Criminal Code.- The German Law on Euthanasia: the legal basics and the actual debate.- Access to Palliative Care in the Italian Legal System.- Legal Rules on Palliative Care under German Law.- End of Life Care and the Economics of Living Wills.- Appendix.