Unreasonable reasons: Normative judgements in the assessment of mental capacity

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1038-1044

  Banner, Natalie F ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

clinical judgement; decision making; mental capacity; philosophy of medicine; psychiatry; rationality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; LAW; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

COGNITION DISORDERS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MENTAL COMPETENCY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 84866684302     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2012.01914.x     Document Type: Article

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