Deciding for Others

Decision making for incompetent elderly people is an increasingly serious issue for American society. The decision-making processes we choose will reflect choices among a number of ethical principles-those specifying the purpose of substituted judgment, those guiding the surrogate decision maker, and those used in choosing the surrogate-and depends as well on the way we construe the concept of decision-making competence.

Author(s): Allen Buchanan; Dan W. Brock

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Volume 64, Issue S2 (pages 17–94)
Published in 1986