The Practice of Autonomy: Patients, Doctors, and Medical Decisions - Hardcover

Schneider, Carl

 
9780195113976: The Practice of Autonomy: Patients, Doctors, and Medical Decisions
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195113977 ISBN 13: 9780195113976
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

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 bioethics, and the encounter between doctor and patient from the patient's point of view. While Schneider agrees that many patients now want to make their own medical decisions, and virtually all want to be treated with dignity and solicitude, he argues that most do not want to assume the full burden of decision-making that some bioethicists and lawyers have thrust upon them. What patients want, according to Schneider, is more ambiguous, complicated, and ambivalent than being "empowered." In this book he tries to chart that ambiguity, to take the autonomy paradigm past current pieties into the uncertain realities of modern medicine.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0195113977
ISBN 13 
9780195113976
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
332
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