Cressida Auckland

Values and Disorder in Mental Capacity Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This inter-disciplinary book critiques the extent to which the Mental Capacity Act can deal adequately with the impact of mental disorder on autonomous decision-making. It will interest lawyers, legal scholars, medical practitioners, and policy makers working in this area, as well as students studying both law and medicine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009482073
• ISBN-10: 1009482076
• Artikelnr.: 70899296

Autorenporträt

Cressida Auckland is Assistant Professor in Law at the Law School, London School of Economics and Political Science. Cressida's research focuses on mental capacity and end-of-life decision-making. She has published extensively on the topic of medical decision-making for minors, with her publications featuring in the Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, Cambridge Law Journal and Medical Law Review. She is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, and an Academic Fellow of the Middle Temple.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. A value-neutral understanding of capacity
2. An essential role for values in assessments of capacity
3. Why disorder matters
4. Accommodating values in the test of capacity
5. Reflecting ambiguity on the cusp of capacity
6. Softening the capacity cliff-edge
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography.