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Il consenso informato ai trattamenti sanitari sui minori e decisioni di fine vita. Riflessioni comparatistiche
2019
The essay deals with the informed consent to allow or to refuse medical treatment for pediatric patients, in a comparative law perspective. The first part focuses on the principle of personal autonomy and the rights to health and to life for patiens who lack capacity, as enshrined in Italian legislation. In determining care and treatment in relation to their child, parents have to take into account the physical and mental well-being, life and dignity of the person, as fully as possible (art. 3, L. 219/2017). The second part of the paper investigates the consequences of parents' refusal to interrupt or continue life-sustaining treatment in relation to infants suffering from serious and incur…
RIFLESSIONI COMPARATISTICHE A MARGINE DELLE SCELTE IN TEMA DI TRATTAMENTO SANITARIO
2018
The essay deals with advance directives to allow or to refuse medical treatment, specifically when the person is in a situation of incapacity. The first part focuses the notion of human dignity in connection with the idea of individual autonomy as right to personal identity and as right to health. The second part of the essay is dedicated to the more remarkable parts of Italian legislation (l. 219/ 2017) that enables someone aged 18 and over, while still capable, to take decisions for foreseeable medical treatments for a time in the future when they may lack the capacity to consent to or refuse that treatment. At last, under a comparative point of view, the essay deals with the English stat…