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PRINCIPLE AUTONOMY [1 record]

Record 1 2005-10-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Medicine
  • Ethics and Morals
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
  • Health Law
DEF

A person has a right to bodily integrity and self-determination, and fromthat flows the right to make decisions about the health care that she or he will choose, accept or rejetc.

CONT

In "The Patient as Partner" I argued that the informed consent movement in medical ethics can be understood adequately only as a manifestation of the principle of autonomy and its ascendance over Hippocratic beneficence.

CONT

... the "quality of life" principle could ... justify non-voluntary (and ultimately involuntary)_euthanasia, while the autonomy principle could justify death-on-demand, irrespective of medical condition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la médecine
  • Éthique et Morale
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
  • Droit de la santé
DEF

Le droit d'être laissé seul juge, le droit à une vie privée, le droit de refuser les interventions d'autrui.

CONT

En situation normale, face à un adulte capable de diriger sa propre vie, le principe d'autonomie exige l'accord de celui-ci à tout traitement médical ou à tout essai expérimental.

OBS

Sur le plan juridique, ce principe se traduit par l'exigence en common law ou dans les lois, que le praticien obtienne le consentement éclairé d'une personne avant de procéder à une intervention médicale.

Spanish

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