Liability for improper maintenance of life support: balancing patient and physician autonomy

Vanderbilt Law Rev. 1993 Oct;46(5):1255-81.
No abstract available

MeSH terms

  • Advance Directives
  • Civil Rights*
  • Conscience
  • Decision Making
  • Euthanasia, Passive*
  • Family
  • Freedom*
  • Hospitals*
  • Humans
  • Informed Consent
  • Judicial Role
  • Jurisprudence*
  • Legislation as Topic
  • Liability, Legal*
  • Life Support Care*
  • Living Wills
  • Organizational Policy*
  • Patient Transfer
  • Patients*
  • Personal Autonomy*
  • Physicians*
  • Professional Autonomy*
  • Right to Die
  • Social Responsibility
  • Social Values
  • State Government
  • Supreme Court Decisions
  • Third-Party Consent
  • Tissue Donors
  • Tissue and Organ Procurement
  • Treatment Refusal
  • United States
  • Withholding Treatment