The standard bioethics account is that respecting patient autonomy means ensuring that
patients make their own decisions, and that requires that they give informed consent. In fact …

The challenge in maintaining patient autonomy regarding medical decision-making and
confidentiality lies not only in control over information transferred to and regarding patients …

This is a book written across the grain of contemporary ethics, where the principle of
autonomy has triumphed. It is an attempt to see the law of medicine, the principles of …

What Does the Evolution From Informed Consent to Shared Decision Making Teach Us About
Authority in Health Care? | Journal of Ethics | American Medical Association Skip to main …

In current American medical practice, autonomy is assumed to be more valuable than
human life: if a patient autonomously refuses lifesaving treatment, the doctors are supposed …

As part of a larger series addressing the intersection of law and medicine, this essay is the
second of two introductory pieces. Beginning with the Hippocratic tradition and lasting for the …

Personal autonomy is widely valued. Recognition of its vulnerability in health care contexts
led to the inclusion of respect for autonomy as a key concern in biomedical ethics. The …

This essay lays the groundwork for a novel conception of autonomy that may be called
“effective autonomy”—a conception designed to be genuinely action guiding in bioethics. As …

Following the influential Gifford and Reith lectures by Onora O'Neill, this paper explores
further the paradigm of individual autonomy which has been so dominant in bioethics until …

Promoting patient autonomy has become a key imperative in health service encounters. We
will examine the potential negative effects of over-promoting patient autonomy and consider …