Busardò Francesco Paolo, Bello Stefania, Gulino Matteo, Zaami Simona, Frati Paola
Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopaedic Sciences, University of Rome La Sapienza, Viale Regina Elena 336, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Department of Legal Medicine, University of Foggia, Via degli Aviatori, 71121 Foggia, Italy.
Biomed Res Int. 2014;2014:576391. doi: 10.1155/2014/576391. Epub 2014 Mar 5.
Advance health care decisions animate an intense debate in several European countries, which started more than 20 years ago in the USA and led to the adoption of different rules, based on the diverse legal, sociocultural and philosophical traditions of each society. In Italy, the controversial issue of advance directives and end of life's rights, in the absence of a clear and comprehensive legislation, has been over time a subject of interest of the Supreme Court. Since 2004 a law introduced the "Public Guardian," aiming to provide an instrument of assistance to the person lacking in autonomy because of an illness or incapacity. Recently, this critical issue has once again been brought to the interest of the Supreme Court, which passed a judgment trying to clarify the legislative application of the appointment of the Guardian in the field of advance directives.
预先医疗决定在几个欧洲国家引发了激烈的辩论，这场辩论20多年前始于美国，并基于每个社会不同的法律、社会文化和哲学传统导致了不同规则的采用。在意大利，由于缺乏明确和全面的立法，预先指示和生命终结权利这一有争议的问题长期以来一直是最高法院关注的主题。自2004年以来，一项法律引入了“公共监护人”，旨在为因疾病或无行为能力而缺乏自主能力的人提供一种援助手段。最近，这个关键问题再次引起了最高法院的关注，最高法院通过了一项判决，试图澄清在预先指示领域监护人任命的立法适用问题。
