The Practice of Autonomy: Patients, Doctors, and Medical Decisions

by Carl E. Schneider

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195113977
• ISBN13: 9780195113976
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"