Personal Autonomy and Substituted Judgment: Legal Issues in Medical Decisions for Incompetent Patients.

In this book the Honorable Edward D. Robertson, Jr., Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri and author of the opinion in Cruzan v. Harmon (Mo. 1988), traces the history of the substituted judgment concept and the constitutional doctrine of the right of privacy. He examines several oxymorons involved in the substituted judgment doctrine and concludes that it has no legitimate...