“As Long As I’m Me”: From Personhood to Personal Identity in Dementia and Decisionmaking
As older people begin to develop dementia, we confront ethical questions about when and how to intervene in their increasingly compromised decision-making. The prevailing approach in bioethics to tackling this challenge has been to develop theories of “decision-making capacity” based on the same cha...
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| Language: | English |
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Programmes de bioéthique, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Canadian Journal of Bioethics |
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| Online Access: | https://cjb-rcb.ca/index.php/cjb-rcb/article/view/326 |