PHIL 2408 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hypovolemia, Blood Transfusion, Sue Rodriguez
25 May 2016
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Deciding for others: competency brock and buchanan. A patient who possesses the correct degree of decision making competence has the moral and legal right to consent to, or to refuse any and all treatment, even if this refusal may result in harm or death. Bioethicists help write laws about moral determinants that help assess competence. Even if the patients do possess competence for decision-making, can physician stand by and watch the patients make the silly mistakes: what conception of competence, standard view: fixed minimal standard. A person is globally" competent so long as she possesses relevant capacities at some universally specified level: alternative view: decision-relative. Competence is always relative to a particular decision a person is never globally competent or incompetent, but only at a particular time relative to a particular task. Understanding and communication: possess linguistic, conceptual, and cognitive abilities necessary for receiving, comprehending, appreciating, and providing information comprehension.
