Advance care decision making in Germany and Italy: a comparative, European and international law perspective

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...

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Other Authors: Negri, Stefania (Editor) , Taupitz, Jochen (Editor) , Salkić, Amina (Editor) , Zwick, Anna (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Berlin Heidelberg Springer 2013
Series:Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Deutsches, Europäisches und Internationales Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht und Bioethik der Universitäten Heidelberg und Mannheim 41
In: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Deutsches, Europäisches und Internationales Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht und Bioethik der Universitäten Heidelberg und Mannheim (41)

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Author Notes:Stefania Negri; Jochen Taupitz; Amina Salkić; Anna Zwick (eds.)
Table of Contents:
  • Universal human rights and end-of-life care Stefania Negri
  • Advance health care directives under European law and European biolaw Angela Di Stasi and Rossana Palladino
  • Advance directives regulation in Italy : between consent and legal rules Vitulia Ivone
  • Patient's autonomy according to German law Jochen Taupitz
  • "Killing me softly" : new questions about therapeutic self-determination in the Italian society and old answers from the criminal code Emanuele Corn
  • The German law on euthanasia : the legal basics and the actual debate Anna Zwick
  • Access to palliative care in the Italian legal system Vitulia Ivone
  • Legal rules on palliative care under German law Amina Salkić
  • Appendix. Constitution of the Italian Republic ; Italian Draft Bill : "dispositions in matter of therapeutic alliance, informed consent and advance treatment directives" ; Italian Criminal Code ; Italian Civil Code ; Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany ; German Criminal Code ; (Model) Professional Code for Physicians in Germany ; German Social Code.