Personal autonomy is often lauded as a key value in contemporary Western bioethics, and
the claim that there is an important relationship between autonomy and rationality is often …

Ever since the traditional criteria for medical decision-making capacity (understanding,
appreciation, reasoning, evidencing a choice) were formulated, they have been criticized for …

Within law and legal scholarship there are different models of legal personality and legal
capacity. The most well known of these emphasises individual rationality, and is distilled into …

The dominant approach to assessing decision-making capacity in medicine focuses on
determining the extent to which individuals possess certain core cognitive abilities. Critics …

The recent M ental C apacity A ct (2005) sets out a test for assessing a person's capacity to
make treatment choices. In some cases, particularly in psychiatry, it is unclear how the …

Self-neglect, in which an individual does not attend to their hygiene, health or home
surroundings, is one of the most challenging aspects of adult social care practice. In …

This article considers the neglected topic of the relationship between the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with …

Why do governments in some developing countries implement international standards,
while others do not? Focusing on the politics of bank regulation, this book develops a new …

The assessment of patients' decision‐making capacity (DMC) has become an important
area of clinical practice, and since it provides the gateway for a consideration of non …

Capacity legislation aims to protect individual autonomy and avoid undue paternalism as far
as possible, partly through ensuring patients are not deemed to lack capacity because they …