The Wreckage of Our Flesh: Dementia, Autonomy and Personhood
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| Publication date | 2013 |
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| Book title | Justice, luck & responsibility in health care: philosophical background and ethical implications for end-of-life care |
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| Series | Library of ethics and applied philosophy, 30 |
| Pages (from-to) | 189-203 |
| Publisher | Dordrecht: Springer |
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| Abstract | Could the principle of respect for autonomy - a principle that is considered so essential nowadays - still be relevant in guiding our conduct with regard to people who suffer from severe dementia? This seems particularly questionable because, as a severely disruptive and debilitating disease, dementia erodes the necessary level of competence that is required for people to ground respect for their decisions, that is, they lack the capacity for autonomy as a necessary condition in order to enjoy the right to autonomy. |
| Document type | Chapter |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5335-8_11 |
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