Blar i forfatter Artikler, rapporter og annet (filosofi og førstesemesterstudier) "Andersson, Anna-Karin Margareta"

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    • Congenitally decorticate children's potential and rights 

      Andersson, Anna-Karin Margareta (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-03)
      This article is the first indepth ethical analysis of empirical studies that support the claim that children born without major parts of their cerebral cortex are capable of conscious experiences and have a rudimentary capacity for agency. Congenitally decorticate children have commonly been classified as persistently vegetative, with serious consequences for their well-being and opportunities to ...

    • Substituted decision making and the dispositional choice account 

      Andersson, Anna-Karin Margareta; Johansson, Kjell Arne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-02)
      There are two main ways of understanding the function of surrogate decision making in a legal context: the Best Interests Standard and the Substituted Judgment Standard. First, we will argue that the Best Interests Standard is difficult to apply to unconscious patients. Application is difficult regardless of whether they have ever been conscious. Second, we will argue that if we accept the least ...

    • Substituted Decision-making 

      Andersson, Anna-Karin Margareta (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)
      A core principle of medical ethics states that patients should be allowed to determine whether they wish to accept or refuse treatment, if they possess the relevant decision making capacity at the time treatment decisions need to be made. In cases where patients lack capacity to make decisions regarding their own treatment, substitute decision makers must make such decisions for them. This chapter ...