Medical Disputes and Conflicting Values: Is There a “Right to Die” Later?

Authors

Janet L. Dolgin, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Brigham Young Law Review

Publication Date

2020

Abstract

The article compares the benefits and disadvantages that each institutional approach, that of statutory law, courts, and hospital ethics consultants, brings to medical-futility disputes. Topics discussed include social and legal responses to conflicts about dying, conflicting values central to contemporary medial ethics, and value of autonomous patient choice.

Recommended Citation

Janet L. Dolgin, Medical Disputes and Conflicting Values: Is There a “Right to Die” Later?, 2020 BYU L Rev. 95 (2020)
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