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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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Book category Books in English Law Laws of Specific jurisdictions Social law

• Full title: Practice of Autonomy
• Author: Schneider, Carl E. (Professor of Law, University of Michigan)
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780195113976
• ISBN: 0195113977
• ID: 04514197
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 658 g
• Dimensions: 164 × 241 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. February 1999

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