The practice of autonomy
patients, doctors, and medical decisions
by Schneider, Carl
Exploring what patients do want gives direction to the author's inquiry into what they should want. What patients want, he believes, is properly more complex and ambiguous than being "empowered." In this book he charts that ambiguity to take the autonomy principle past current pieties into the uncertain realities of the sick room and the hospital ward. The Practice of Autonomy is a sympathetic but trenchant study of the animating principle of modern bioethics. It speaks with freshness, insight, and even passion to bioethicists and moral philosophers (about their theories), to lawyers (about their methods), to medical sociologists (about their subject), to policy-makers (about their ambitions), to doctors (about their work), and to patients (about their lives).
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The practice of autonomy: patients, doctors, and medical decisions
1998, Oxford Unviersity Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-299) and index.
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