Advance Directives and Personal Identity: What Is the Problem?

The personal identity problem expresses the worry that due to disrupted psychological continuity, one person’s advance directive could be used to determine the care of a different person. Even ethicists, who strongly question the possibility of the scenario depicted by the proponents of the personal...

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Publicado en:Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 60 - 74
Autor principal: Furberg, Elisabeth
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jan2012
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