Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment: A Guide for Physicians and Other Health Professionals

by Thomas Grisso and Paul S. Appelbaum

One of the most challenging tasks facing clinicians today is the assessment of patients' capacities to consent to treatment. The protection of a patient's right to decide, as well as the protection of incompetent patients from the potential harm of their decisions, rests largely on clinicians' abilities to judge patients' capacities to decide what treatment they will receive. However, confusing laws and the complicated ethical issues surrounding the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195103726
• ISBN13: 9780195103724
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.5"