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Full Description
This book engages in a critical discussion on how to respect and promote patients' autonomy in difficult cases such as palliative care and end-of-life decisions. These cases pose specific epistemic, normative, and practical problems, and the book elucidates the connection between the practical implications of the theoretical debate on respecting autonomy, on the one hand, and specific questions and challenges that arise in medical practice, on the other hand. Given that the idea of personal autonomy includes the notion of authenticity as one of its core components, the book explicitly includes discussions on underlying theories of the self. In doing so, it brings together original contributions and novel insights for "applied" scenarios based on interdisciplinary collaboration between German and Serbian scholars from philosophy, sociology, and law. It is of benefit to anyone cherishing autonomy in medical ethics and medical practice.
Contents
Part 1: From Theories of the Self and Autonomy to Medical Ethics.- Chapter 1. A Three-Layered Understanding of the Self as Basis of a Respectful Ethics (Jörg Zeller).- Chapter 2. What Is Autonomy Anyway? (Milijana Djerić).- Chapter 3. Deciding for Others, and Respect for Autonomy in End-of-Life Decisions (Jovan Babić).- Chapter 4. Narratives in Flux. Why Patients' Life Stories Do Not Provide Decisive Instructions in Cases of Surrogate Decision-Making (Michael Kühler).- Chapter 5. The ART of Authenticity(Birgit Beck).- Chapter 6. Remainders of the Self: Consciousness as a Problem for Neuroethics(Marco Stier).- Part 2: From Medical Ethics to Theoretical Ethics and Lawmaking.- Chapter 7. Ethical Issues Concerning Patient Autonomy in Clinical Practice (Alfred Simon).- Chapter 8. Patients' Rights to Refuse Medical Treatment Through the Act of Advanced Directives (Hajrija Mujovic Zornić).- Chapter 9. Prolonged Autonomy? The Principle of Precedent Autonomy and the Binding Force of Advance Directives in Dementia (Oliver Hallich).- Chapter 10. Individual and Collective Responsibility in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (Zoran Todorović).- Chapter 11. Late Stage Dementia and Responsibility for Past Crimes (Annette Dufner).- Chapter 12. Understanding 'Euthanasia' through Various Medical Practices (Veselin Mitrović).
