The practice of autonomy : patients, doctors, and medical decisions
Exploring what patients do want gives direction to the author's inquiry into what they should want. What patients want, he believes, is properly more complex and ambiguous than being "empowered." In this book he charts that ambiguity to take the autonomy principle past current pieties into the uncertain realities of the sick room and the hospital ward. The Practice of Autonomy is a sympathetic but trenchant study of the animating principle of modern bioethics. It speaks with freshness, insight, and even passion to bioethicists and moral philosophers (about their theories), to lawyers (about their methods), to medical sociologists (about their subject), to policy-makers (about their ambitions), to doctors (about their work), and to patients (about their lives)
xxii, 307 pages ; 24 cm
9780195113976, 0195113977
38281401
Medical decisions in the age of informed consent
The autonomy paradigm
Patients' preferences about autonomy
The reluctant patient : can abjuring autonomy make sense?
How can they think that? : of information, control, and complexity
Reconsidering autonomy : evaluating the arguments for mandatory autonomy
Beyond the reluctant patient : autonomy in new times