Too often, we as individuals do things that harm us, that seriously interfere with our being
able to live in the way that we want. We eat food that makes us obese, that promotes …

The history of the emergence of medical ethics as a special subject for study in the past 15
years is in many ways the history ofconcern for patient autonomy. Particularly in the United …

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We offer a critique of one prominent understanding of the principle of respect for autonomy
and of analyses of medical paternalism based on that understanding. Our main critique is …

Until recently claims for damages by patients against their doctors were rare in England.
Patients who did pursue such claims often found scant sympathy from Her Majesty's judges …

Medical Law and Moral Rights discusses live issues arising in modern medical practice. Do
patients undergoing intolerable irremediable suffering have a moral right to physician …

In this Article, Professor Baron challenges the position taken recently by Dr. Arnold Relman
in this journal that the 1977 Saikewicz decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of …

Authority is an uneasy, political notion. Heard with modern ears, it calls forth images of
oppression and power. In institutional settings, authority is everywhere present, and its use …

Some physicians have withheld medical information from patients when they have believed
full disclosure to be medically contraindicated, to avoid potential harm to the patient's …

Different ideas of the normative relevance of autonomy can give rise to profoundly different
action-guiding principles in healthcare. If autonomy is seen as a value rather than as a right …