Respect for autonomy and medical paternalism reconsidered |
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| Authors: | L. B. McCullough Alan W. Cross |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Dept. of Community and Family Medicine, and Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, 20007, Washington, D.C., USA
2. Department of Medicine and Department of Philosophy, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
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| Abstract: | We offer a critique of one prominent understanding of the principle of respect for autonomy and of analyses of medical paternalism based on that understanding. Our main critique is that understanding respect for autonomy as respect for freedom from interference is mistaken because it is overly influenced by ‘four-alarm’ cases, because it fails to appreciate the full dimensions of legal self-determination (one of its main sources), because it conflates the research and therapeutic settings, and because it fails to appreciate themes of authority and power that have historically shaped the principle of respect for freedom from interference. We argue that respect for autonomy involves more than just freedom from interference and, on this basis, offer a critique of prevailing accounts of medical paternalism. |
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