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Bioethics

deciding for someone who cannot decide by what would most benefit them, read as a threshold, an ideal and a reasonableness standard.

In bioethics, best interests standard refers to deciding for someone who cannot decide by what would most benefit them, read as a threshold, an ideal and a reasonableness standard. This meaning comes from Kopelman (1997) in Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.[1]

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References

Kopelman, L. M. (1997). The Best-Interests Standard as Threshold, Ideal, and Standard of Reasonableness. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 22(3), 271-289. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/22.3.271

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