AUTONOMY

Will Covid-19 dethrone ‘autonomy’ as the dominant principle of bioethics?

Michael Cook | 29 November 2020 | Comments

tags: autonomy

A number of bioethicists believe that more emphasis on solidarity is needed

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Does the autonomy principle work for substance abusers? 

Michael Cook | 18 November 2020 | Comments

tags: autonomy, bioethics

Relationships and empathy are far more important

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Let’s return to the basics of human experience, says bioethicist

Michael Cook | 24 October 2020 | Comments

tags: autonomy, bioethics, communitarianism

Human beings are not unconnected atoms

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What factors can undermine our autonomy?

Michael Cook | 24 October 2020 | Comments

tags: agency, assisted suicide, autonomy, euthanasia

Addiction, brainwashing, trauma or fatigue, obviously. Any others?

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Does Covid-19 spell the death of autonomy?

Michael Cook | 27 September 2020 | Comments

tags: autonomy

‘Bioethics has pushed too far in the direction of the individual,’ says scholar

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Should COVID-19 vaccination be compulsory?

Xavier Symons | 16 May 2020 | Comments

tags: autonomy, compulsory vaccination, covid-19, vaccination

A group Oxford ethicists say "yes".

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Is ‘autonomy’ the central issue in the Vincent Lambert debate?

Michael Cook | 06 July 2019 | Comments

tags: autonomy

Two British bioethicists at loggerheads

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Is the campaign for euthanasia a byproduct of neoliberalism?

Xavier Symons | 30 March 2019 | Comments

tags: autonomy, euthanasia, liberalism

Perhaps there more to the euthanasia debate than individual autonomy.

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Some Canadian doctors are refusing to treat attempted suicides

Michael Cook | 02 December 2017 | Comments

tags: autonomy, canada, euthanasia, suicide

Opposed by the Quebec College of Physicians

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Should Facebook have its own chapter in a bioethics text?

Michael Cook | 11 November 2017 | Comments

tags: autonomy, bioethics, facebook, social media

Another challenge for justice and autonomy

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Does Asia have a distinctive bioethics?

Michael Cook | 21 October 2017 | Comments

tags: asian values, autonomy, bioethics

Families are much more important

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Autonomy: a short history of a big idea

Michael Cook | 17 June 2017 | Comments

tags: autonomy, enlightenment, paul ramsey, principlism

Do we really need 'autonomy' to explain why people should be decently treated?

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More Ubuntu, less autonomy, says South African bioethicist

Michael Cook | 13 May 2017 | Comments

tags: autonomy, principalism

Principalism does not fit into African bioethics, says Kevin Behrens

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Give them sterile razors: controversial self-harm strategy

Michael Cook | 11 February 2017 | Comments

tags: autonomy, harm minimization, self-harm

It could be more respectful for their autonomy

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The Netherlands, compulsory contraception, and reverse democracy

Xavier Symons | 08 October 2016 | Comments

tags: autonomy, consent, contraception, the netherlands

Rotterdam City Council wants to administer compulsory contraception for “vulnerable women”, saying that birth control is a form of “child protection”.

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Delusional but autonomous

Michael Cook | 07 November 2015 | Comments

tags: autonomy, informed consent, mental illness, UK

A British man chooses to die rather than lose his leg.

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Looking back: Daniel Callahan

Michael Cook | 13 June 2015 | Comments

tags: autonomy, bioethics, communitarianism, Daniel Callahan

One of the grand old men of American bioethics, he is a reminder of a broader and more communitarian view.

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Interview: Daniel P. Sulmasy on informed consent

Xavier Symons and Daniel P. Sulmasy | 21 May 2015 | Comments

tags: autonomy, informed consent, interviews, Jehovah's Witness, virtue ethics

In an exclusive BioEdge interview, presidential advisor and renown bioethicist Daniel P. Sulmasy discusses the principle of informed consent.

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Physician assisted death versus palliative care

Xavier Symons | 24 January 2015 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, autonomy, euthanasia, free will, physician assisted death

Why wait for the perfect public health system?

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Defending human dignity

Michael Cook | 13 September 2014 | Comments

tags: autonomy, human dignity

English barrister and medical ethicist Charles Foster has penned defence of “human dignity” as the foundation of bioethics in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics.

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