Advance Care Decision Making in Germany and Italy A Comparative, European and International Law Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Negri, Stefania. (Editor), Taupitz, Jochen. (Editor), Salki♯!, Amina. (Editor), Zwick, Anna. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Ver©œffentlichungen des Instituts f©ơr Deutsches, Europ©Þisches und Internationales Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht und Bioethik der Universit©Þten Heidelberg und Mannheim, 41
• Subjects: Law.; Public health.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Medical laws and legislation.; Medical Law.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.; Public Health.; European Law.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• 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
• PatientỚ"s autonomy according to German Law
• ỚSKilling me softlyỚ<U+00fd>: 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.