Compliance with advance directives. Wrongful living and tort law incentives.

Advance directives and medical treatment at the end of life.

To assess the consequences of advance medical directives--which explicitly specify a patient's preferences for one or more specific types of medical treatment in the event of a loss of competence--we analyze the medical care of elderly Medicare beneficiaries who died between 1985 and 1995. We compare the care of patients from states that adopted laws enhancing incentives for compliance with adv...

Wrongful life, wrongful birth, and justice in tort law.

The wrongful birth tort: a policy analysis and the right to sue for an inconvenient child.

In defense of wrongful life: bringing political theory to the defense of a tort.

The law and practice associated with advance directives in Canada and Australia: similarities, differences and debates.

This article is a summary of research that investigated the Canadian and Australian legislative framework associated with advance directives in health care. The research focused on the context in which older people are encouraged to use advance directives. These are directions about refusal of medical treatment given in advance of incompetence. An advance directive may be given in a written doc...