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Record Nr.

UNINA9910438226903321

Titolo

Advance Care Decision Making in Germany and Italy : A Comparative, European and International Law Perspective / / edited by Stefania Negri, Jochen Taupitz, Amina Salkić, Anna Zwick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

3-642-40555-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Deutsches, Europäisches und Internationales Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht und Bioethik der Universitäten Heidelberg und Mannheim, , 1617-1497 ; ; 41

Disciplina

344.4041

Soggetti

Medical laws and legislation

Private international law

Conflict of laws

Public health

Law—Europe

Medical Law

Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law

Public Health

European Law

Germany

Italy

Deutschland

Italien

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- Universal Human Rights and End-of-Life Care -- Advance Health Care Directives under European Law and European Biolaw -- Advance Directives Regulation in Italy: Between Consent and Legal Rules -- Patient’s autonomy according to German Law -- “Killing me softly”: new questions about therapeutic self-determination in the Italian society and old answers from the Criminal Code -- The German



Law on Euthanasia: the legal basics and the actual debate -- Access to Palliative Care in the Italian Legal System -- Legal Rules on Palliative Care under German Law -- End of Life Care and the Economics of Living Wills -- Appendix.

Sommario/riassunto

What is the situation of people who are unable to make decisions due to a physical or mental change? This book gives impulses and answers to many ethical, economical and mainly legal questions which arise and are associated with the end of life. A universal human rights approach and the analysis of the relevant European law are put in front of the presentation of the national legal situations in Italy and Germany. The most topical and controversial issues concerning advance care planning are presented as well as a transnational economic analysis on the effects of advance care planning.