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The Empire Of Illness: Competence And Coercion In Health-Care Decision Making, Marsha Garrison
The Empire Of Illness: Competence And Coercion In Health-Care Decision Making, Marsha Garrison
William & Mary Law Review
The law's willingness to take account of factors that interfere with volition tends to vary in accordance with its underlying goals. The law of wills is dominated by the principle of freedom of testation; it has thus developed doctrines aimed at detecting coercive influences that interfere with the testator's free agency. The law of medical decision making, dominated by the analogous principle of patient autonomy, has not developed doctrines aimed at detecting coercive influences despite a large and growing body of evidence showing that disordered insight and major depression, two common medical conditions, often have a coercive, negative effect on …
Making Gifts From Incompetent's Estate Under The Doctrine Of Substitution Of Judgment To Reduce Federal Estate Taxes
William & Mary Law Review
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