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

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

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