Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis

Description

This book is the first to consider comprehensively and systematically the law and practice of advance directives across Asia. It will thus be important not only as a reference volume that documents how advance directives are regulated and used throughout Asia, but also as an exploration of the concept of the advance directive itself, in context. By examining how advance directives operate in Asian countries, we will also shed light on the principle of personal autonomy in this context, alongside other values and religious and socio-cultural factors that shape health and care decision-making. As such, this book will have broad appeal not only to Asian scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners in the fields of health law and ethics and end-of-life care more generally, but will also be of wider interest to an international academic audience in the fields of law, ethics and health and social care research. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Daisy Cheung is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the law and ethics of mental health and capacity, and she has published on these topics across a number of contexts, including a funded project on adult guardianship. She is a member of the Mental Health Law Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong. Michael Dunn is Associate Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He is an internationally-renowned bioethicist, and has made major contributions in clinical ethics, social care ethics and research ethics. He has been a pioneer in establishing and shaping the methodological sub-field of empirical bioethics. He has written over seventy peer-reviewed academic papers, and co-authored or co-edited five other books.