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Prayer Time with Tessa: Ethical Reflections about Paternalistic Decision Making on Behalf of Cognitively Impaired Persons

Babcock, Paul A.; Welie, Jos V. M. (Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2015)

Owing to the nature of their disability, paternalism is an inevitable reality in the daily lives of the intellectually disabled. Decision-making by others for their assumed best interests, but without their explicit consent, ...