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Commentary: On The Moral Bindingness of Advance Directives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2019

STEPHEN LATHAM
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Special Section: Open Forum
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 2020 , pp. 110 - 114
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019 

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2. I use hedging language about what “appears” or “seems” to be true of the December, 2017 Italian law because I am wholly reliant on English-language summaries of it, e.g., Ciliberti, R, Gorini, I, Gazzaniga, F, De Stefano, F, Gulino, M. The Italian law on informed consent and advance directives: New rules of conduct for the autonomy of doctors and patients in end-of-life care. Journal of Critical Care 2018;48:178–82.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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