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Advance Care Decision Making in Germany and Italy A Comparative, European and International Law Perspective /

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Negri, Stefania. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Taupitz, Jochen. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Salkić, Amina. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Zwick, Anna. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Deutsches, Europäisches und Internationales Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht und Bioethik der Universitäten Heidelberg und Mannheim, 41
Subjects:
Medical laws and legislation.
Private international law.
Conflict of laws.
Public health.
Law—Europe.
Medical Law.
Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law .
Public Health.
European Law.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40555-6
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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