What are the duties of carers and health professionals to people with mental incapacity? How ought we to think about the ethical and legal issues? What can any of us do to improve and safegurad the lives of those cared for?<BR><BR>This book seeks to examine in detail and find ethically robust answers to such questions. Among the topics discussed are: withholding treatment, tube-feeding patients with dementia, the `persistent vegetative state', medical research, and sterilistation of intellectually disabled adults. The book includes an up-to-date account of non-voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands and Belgium, together with a chapter exploring some aspects of Britain's Mental Capacity Act 2005.