Author(s)
Gauthier, Candace CumminsKeywords
Allowing to DieAutonomy
Beneficence
Bioethics
Competence
Confidentiality
Consent
Decision Making
Deontological Ethics
Disclosure
Ethics
Freedom
Futility
Health
Health Care
Health Care Delivery
Human Characteristics
Informed Consent
Justice
Medical Ethics
Paternalism
Patient Care
Patient Participation
Philosophy
Physician Patient Relationship
Professional Patient Relationship
Resource Allocation
Rights
Social Control
Treatment Refusal
Truth Disclosure
Utilitarianism
Withholding Treatment
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Abstract
Understanding the philosophical foundations of the principle of respect for autonomy is essential for its proper application within medical ethics. The foundations provided by Immanuel Kant's principle of humanity and John Stuart Mill's principle of liberty share substantial areas of agreement including: the grounding of respect for autonomy in the capacity for rational agency, the restriction of this principle to rational agents, and the important distinction between influence and control. Their work helps to clarify the scope and role of the principle of respect for autonomy in health care delivery; its implications for truth telling, informed consent, and confidentiality; and its relationship to other moral principles, such as beneficence and distributive justice.Date
2015-05-05Identifier
oai:repository.library.georgetown.edu:10822/74062510.1353/ken.0.0103
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. 1993 Mar; 3(1): 21-37.
1054-6863
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ken.0.0103
http://hdl.handle.net/10822/740625