Bioethics
Dementia, Advance Directives, and Second-Order Volitions.
Rand Hirmiz
Published: 202610.1111/bioe.70085
Abstract
This paper contributes to the ongoing debate over the authority of advance directives in cases where patients with dementia express desires that conflict with their earlier wishes. Drawing on Harry Frankfurt's concept of second-order volitions, I arg…
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