Description: 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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EAN: 9780195113976
UPC: 9780195113976
ISBN: 9780195113976
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Item Length: 24.1 cm
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Book Title: The Practice of Autonomy: Patients, Doctors, and Medical Decisions
Item Height: 241mm
Item Width: 162mm
Author: Carl E. Schneider
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Medicine, Popular Philosophy, Religious History, Healthcare System
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Publication Year: 1999
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 621g
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
