Dr Demian Whiting D.Whiting@hull.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer
In this paper I get clearer on the considerations that ought to inform the evaluation and development of medico-legal competency criteria-where this is taken to be a question regarding the abilities that ought to be needed for a patient to be found competent in medico-legal contexts. In the "Decisional Competency in Medico-Legal Contexts" section I explore how the question regarding the abilities that ought to be needed for decisional competence is to be interpreted. I begin by considering an interpretation that takes the question to be asking about the abilities needed to satisfy an idealized view of competent decision-making, according to which decisional competency is a matter of possessing those abilities or attributes that are needed to engage in good or effective or, perhaps, substantially autonomous or rational decision-making. The view has some plausibility-it accords with the way decisional competency is understood in a number of everyday contexts-but fails as an interpretation of the question regarding the abilities that should be needed for decisional competence in medico-legal contexts. Nevertheless, consideration of why it is mistaken suggests a more accurate interpretation and points the way in which the question regarding the evaluation of medico-legal competency criteria is to be answered. Building on other scholarly work in the area, I outline in the "Primary and Secondary Requirements" section several requirements that decisional competence criteria ought to satisfy. Then, in the "Applying the Framework" section, I say something about the extent to which medico-legal competency criteria, as well as some models of decisional competency proposed in the academic literature, fulfil those requirements.
Whiting, D. (2015). Evaluating medico-legal decisional competency criteria. Health care analysis, 23(2), 181-196. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-013-0258-z
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Jun 27, 2013 |
Publication Date | Jun 1, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Nov 13, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 23, 2017 |
Journal | Health care analysis |
Electronic ISSN | 1573-3394 |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 23 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 181-196 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-013-0258-z |
Keywords | Decisional authority, Decisional competency, Idealized views of competency, Law, Medico-legal contexts, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Proportionality, Necessity |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/471636 |
Publisher URL | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10728-013-0258-z |
Additional Information | Authors' accepted manuscript of article published in: Health care analysis, 2015, v.23, issue 2 |
Contract Date | Nov 23, 2017 |
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