“年龄歧视”与安乐死诉讼。
'Ageism' and right to die litigation.
作者信息
Kapp M B
机构信息
Office of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio.
出版信息
Med Law. 1994;13(1-2):69-77.
This study examines 88 reported judicial decisions involving adult patients and decisions about life-prolonging medical treatments. The patient's age by itself does not appear to be a factor influencing findings of mental competency or incompetency or findings of the appropriateness or inappropriateness of abating life-prolonging medical treatments. Neither can an explicit ageist bias be extracted from an analysis of the text of judicial decisions in this arena. Various potential explanations for the lack of apparent ageist bias are suggested.
本研究考察了88项已报道的涉及成年患者以及关于延长生命的医疗治疗决策的司法判决。患者的年龄本身似乎并不是影响精神能力合格与否的判定结果，或者影响中止延长生命的医疗治疗是否恰当的判定结果的一个因素。从对这一领域司法判决文本的分析中，也无法提炼出明显的年龄歧视偏见。文中提出了对于缺乏明显年龄歧视偏见的各种潜在解释。
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