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The Moral Bindingness of Advance Directives

A Response to Steve Latham, “Commentary: On the Moral Blindingness of Advance Directives” (CQ 29 (1))

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2023

Gianluca Montanari Vergallo*
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomical, Histological, Medicolegal and Orthopaedic Sciences, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Extract

Professor Latham has written a thought-provoking commentary1 on my paper about advance directives.2 I am grateful for this opportunity to integrate the debate on the moral binding nature of these manifestations of will.

Type
Responses and Dialogue
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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References

Notes

1. Latham, S. Commentary: On the moral bindingness of advance directives. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2020;29(1):110–14CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed.

2. Montanari Vergallo, G. Advance healthcare directives: Binding or informational value? Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2020;29(1):98109 CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed.

3. Section 1, Subsections 5 and 6; Section 4, Subsection 1, Italian law 22 Dec 2017, no. 219; available at https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2018/1/16/18G00006/sg (last accessed 5 Jan 2023).

4. European Resuscitation Council. Guidelines for Resuscitation 2015; available at https://ercguidelines.elsevierresource.com/european-resuscitation-council-guidelines-resuscitation-2015-section-1-executive-summary, at 2 (last accessed 5 Jan 2023).

5. Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. Decisioni in merito alla rianimazione; 2017; available at https://www.samw.ch/dam/jcr:f97e4bea-af47-461c-8389-695119c88e81/direttive_assm_rianimazione.pdf, at 12 (last accessed 5 Jan 2023).

6. See note 1, Latham 2020, at 114.

7. See note 1, Latham 2020, at 112.