The clinical application of the concept of patient autonomy has centered on the ability to
deliberate and make treatment decisions (decisional autonomy) to the virtual exclusion of …

In recent years, several studies have advocated the need to expand the concept of patient
autonomy beyond the capacity to deliberate and make decisions regarding a specific …

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 …

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 …

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 authors identify the clinical and ethical implications of impaired executive control
functions for patient autonomy. Executive control functions are processes that orchestrate …

The application of the principle of autonomy, which is considered a cornerstone of
contemporary bioethics, is sometimes in obvious contradiction with the principle of …

As medical technology continues to advance and health care choices become more
complicated, the preservation of end-of-life autonomy is an increasingly important issue …

OBJECTIVE: To examine factors associated with desire for autonomy in health care
decisions in the general population. METHODS: Mailed survey of 2348 residents of Geneva …

I, for one, am grateful to Peter Ubel, Karen Scherr, and Angela Fagerlin (2017) for their
important and illuminating reflections on medical decision making, particularly in the context …