THE DEBATE ON THE VALIDITY OF ADVANCE DIRECTIVES FOR HEALTH

Authors

  • Laura Florencia Belli Author Facultad de Filosofía y Letras - Universidad de Buenos Aires Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)

Keywords:

Advance directives, personal autonomy, bioethics. (Source, DeCS, Bireme).

Abstract

Advance directives (also called "living wills") are documents signed by a competent individual providing directives as to the permission to apply or to reject medical treatments in the event that the individual who wrote it may not be in a position to declare his or her will.

Despite the good reception from the global bioethics community, their validity has been seriously questioned. In this paper, I intend to analyze in depth the faults mentioned by its detractors and I will try to offer an alternative that is superior to the classic version of these documents and manage to escape the criticism which, for decades, they have been subject to.

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Author Biography

Laura Florencia Belli, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras - Universidad de Buenos Aires Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)

Doctora en Filosofía. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad de Buenos Aires

Investigadora becaria postdoctoral en CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)

Docente matería ética - Carrera de filosofía - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras - Universidad de Buenos Aires

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Published

2014-11-20

How to Cite

Belli, L. F. (2014). THE DEBATE ON THE VALIDITY OF ADVANCE DIRECTIVES FOR HEALTH. Persona Y Bioética, 18(2), 213–225. Retrieved from https://personaybioetica.unisabana.edu.co/index.php/personaybioetica/article/view/4063

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 2 (2014)

Section

Articles

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