Personhood, Critical Interests, and the Moral Imperative of Advance Directives in Alzheimer’s Cases
Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash INTRODUCTION The moral authority of advance directives (ADs) is contingent on one of two metaphysical concepts of personhood common in the West. The first tradition originated in the ideas of David Hume and Jeremy Bentham. Hume asserts that the idea of personhood...
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Columbia University Libraries
2021-01-01
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| Series: | Voices in Bioethics |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/bioethics/article/view/7818 |