Autonomy, capacity and the limitations of liberalism : an exploration of the law relating to treatment refusal
This thesis explores how the law deals with the patient's right to refuse treatment, evaluating the issue in the context of capable, incapable and involuntary patients. The thesis shows how the consent requirement, and consequently the right to refuse, derives from the law's adherence to t...
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Cardiff University
2006
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.583961 |