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 …

Background Patients with advanced cancer may benefit from end of life (EOL) planning, but
there is evidence that their willingness and desire to engage in advance care planning …

As a result of the paradigm shift to a competency-based framework, both self-directed
lifelong learning and learner-centeredness have become essential tenets of medical …

As the medical education community celebrates the 100th anniversary of the seminal
Flexner Report, medical education is once again experiencing significant pressure to …

A revolutionary exploration of the nature of feminism today, its impact on everyday life, and
its promise for the future. Determined to extend the boundaries of feminism to embrace …

The article focuses on developing a relational approach to autonomy that restricts normative
authority over decisions of import in practical identity and in relations of intersubjective …

The intertwining ideas of self‐determination and well‐being have received tremendous
support in western bioethics. They have been used to reject medical paternalism and to …

Background: The concept of moral distress has been the subject of nursing research for the
past 30 years. Recently, there has been a call to move from developing an understanding of …

Recently, there has been a growing interest in public health and public health ethics. Much
of this interest has been tied to efforts to draw up national and international plans to deal …

Drawing on the work of Foucault and Western confessional writings, this book challenges
the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting in …