Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility

by Alfred I. Tauber

Book Overview

The principle of patient autonomy dominates the contemporary debate over medical ethics. In this examination of the doctor-patient relationship, physician and philosopher Alfred Tauber argues that the idea of patient autonomy-which was inspired by other rights-based movements of the 1960s-was an extrapolation from political and social philosophy that fails to ground medicine's moral philosophy. He proposes instead a reconfiguration of personal autonomy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262201607
• ISBN13: 9780262201605
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.3"