HHS 2019 Oct 26;20(1):76. doi: 10.1186/s12910-019-0417-3. The received view in medical contexts is that informed consent is both necessary and sufficient for patient autonomy.  |  Thus, the aim of the study was to describe the content of healthcare professionals' moral reasoning during MCD. What healthcare teams find ethically difficult. The healthcare professionals deliberated about good care in relation to demands considered to be unrealistic, justifications for influencing the patient, the incapacitated patient's nebulous interests, and coping with the conflict between using coercion to achieve good while protecting human dignity. A newsletter by the Department of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine for its alumni and community. Yet suddenly, with COVID-19 every one of us is forced to consider his or her freedom to make decisions in relation to others. Relational autonomy is consistent with and responsive to the basic assumptions and commitments of a patient-centered approach. Epub 2020 Aug 3. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2010.01810.x. Relational autonomy has even been advanced as a foundational notion of palliative care, shared decision-making, and advance-care planning. This chapter unpacks the dominant, though thin and procedural, conception of the principle of respect for personal autonomy in the context of a medical and legal decision to allow a fourteen-year-old Jehovah’s Witness boy to refuse a blood transfusion needed to extend his life. We are all dependent on others, the interests of the individual and community are inevitably inter-related. Rejecting the feminist charge that autonomy is inherently masculinist, the contributors draw on feminist critiques of autonomy to challenge and enrich contemporary philosophical debates about agency, identity, and moral responsibility. Respect for autonomy is a principle of medicine that refers to respect for the patient’s ability to self-govern without “controlling interference by others and … limitations, such as inadequate understanding” . -, Dauwerse L, Abma T, Molewijk B, Widdershoven G. Need for ethics support in healthcare institutions: Views of Dutch board members and ethics support staff. 2020 Jul 2;21(1):53. doi: 10.1186/s12910-020-00493-3. This site needs JavaScript to work properly. 6 A growing recognition of how gender differences privileged certain aspects of moral knowledge led to the development of an ethics of care, which shifted the focus of how we reason about morally difficult … ‘relational autonomy’ in particular have argued that people’s identities, needs, interests – and indeed autonomy – are ... medicine, the principle of personal autonomy was raised as a pillar in clinical research ethics beginning in the mid-20th century. 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