PHILOS 2D03 Lecture 4: Philosophy 2D03 Oct 3 (lec 4).docx
4 Feb 2014
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Not wanting to be a care burden on others because of their own experiences of the work of being a career: chemotherapy and other types of health decisions were someone may need long term assistance from others, may impact someone"s treatment options choose risky surgery to be able to care for themselves physically. Healthcare: patients ought to have the authority to make decisions about their own health care, hcps need to facilitate the autonomy of patients, informed consent, history of paternalism in healthcare, balance of power in hcp patient relationship. Any account of autonomy needs to: reflect the host of individuating factors that inform the particular way we make autonomous choices, articulate how the specifics of an individuals gender, race and esl status can make it easier or harder to be autonomous in the particular context, challenge the quality of an agents specific decision making ability.
