The Practice of Autonomy
Patients, Doctors, and Medical Decisions
Seiten
1999
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-511397-6 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-511397-6 (ISBN)
This book approaches ethical and legal issues in medicine from the patient's viewpoint and argues that many patients do not want the full burden of decision making that contemporary bioethics has thrust upon them.
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.
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.
1. The Autonomy Paradigm ; 2. Patients' Preferences About Autonomy: The Empirical Evidence ; 3. The Reluctant Patient: Can Abjuring Autonomy Make Sense? ; 4. How Can They Think That: Of Information, Control, and Complexity ; 5. Reconsidering Autonomy: Evaluating the Arguments For Mandatory Autonomy ; 6. Beyond The Reluctant Patient: Autonomy in New Times
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.2.1999 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 241 x 161 mm |
| Gewicht | 617 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-511397-7 / 0195113977 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-511397-6 / 9780195113976 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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