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Tales Publicly Allowed: Competence, Capacity, and Religious Belief
Author(s) -
Martin Adrienne M.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1353/hcr.2007.0012
Subject(s) - competence (human resources) , health care , social psychology , psychology , public relations , law , political science
What should we make of someone whose beliefs prevent her from accurately understanding her medical needs and care? Should that person still make her own health care decisions? In fact, she probably lacks decision‐making capacity. But that does not mean she is not competent.