Missing persons: legal perceptions of incompetent patients

Rutgers Law Rev. 1994 Winter;46(2):609-719.
No abstract available

MeSH terms

  • Advance Directives
  • Aged
  • Decision Making*
  • Dementia*
  • Empathy
  • Euthanasia, Passive*
  • Family
  • Freedom*
  • Humans
  • Judicial Role
  • Jurisprudence*
  • Life Support Care*
  • Mental Competency*
  • Mentally Ill Persons
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Persistent Vegetative State
  • Personal Autonomy*
  • Persons with Mental Disabilities
  • Quality of Life*
  • Reference Standards*
  • Right to Die
  • Risk Assessment*
  • Risk*
  • Self Concept
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Third-Party Consent
  • Treatment Refusal
  • United States
  • Withholding Treatment