Independent Research, London.
New Bioeth. 2020 Sep;26(3):238-252. doi: 10.1080/20502877.2020.1758491. Epub 2020 May 23.
This paper examines the Court of Protection decision in . It considers whether the approach of the Court, which gave effective decisive weight to a patient's previously expressed wishes about whether he should be kept alive in a minimally conscious state, is a proper application of the 'best interests' test under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. It assesses whether the approach is effectively applying a 'substituted judgement' test and considers the difficulties in ascertaining what a person's actual wishes are.
本文考察了保护法院的决定。它考虑了法院的方法是否正确，即给予患者先前表达的关于是否应在最小意识状态下维持生命的意愿以有效的决定性权重，这是根据 2005 年《精神能力法》对“最佳利益”测试的适当应用。它评估了 的方法是否有效地应用了“替代判断”测试，并考虑了确定一个人的实际意愿的困难。
