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. 1991 Apr;5(2):118-22.
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.1991.tb00153.x.

A response to Brock and Skene

A response to Brock and Skene

Mark R Wicclair. Bioethics. 1991 Apr.

Abstract

KIE: Wicclair responds briefly to articles by Dan W. Brock, "Patient decision-making competence and risk," and Loane Skene, "Risk-related standard inevitable in assessing competence," in this issue of Bioethics. Brock and Skene were responding to Wicclair's essay, "Decision-making capacity and risk," also in this issue of Bioethics. Wicclair had critiqued the arguments of Brock and Allen Buchanan, published elsewhere, concerning standards of competence for health care treatment decision making.

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