Legal and ethical aspects of refusing medical treatment after a suicide attempt: The Wooltorton case in the Australian context

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 193, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 239-242

  Ryan, Christopher J ^a   Callaghan, Sascha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DRUG OVERDOSE; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LIVING WILL; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TREATMENT REFUSAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ETHICS; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL CAPACITY; RIGHT TO DIE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AUSTRALIA; HUMANS; MENTAL COMPETENCY; RIGHT TO DIE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 77956621190     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03880.x     Document Type: Review

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