What is it about?
A short history of how autonomy has come to trump everything else in medical ethics
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Why is it important?
Autonomy has become so predominant that is beginning to make clinical judgement redundant and thus the whole enterprise of medicine as a healing art is under threat
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This paper stemmed out of a conference on autonomy in medicine which was hosted at St Mary's University
Dr Trevor Stammers
St Mary's University
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This page is a summary of: The Evolution of Autonomy, The New Bioethics, May 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1179/2050287715z.00000000070.
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