Personal Autonomy
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration.

29 Nov 2009 The withdrawal, withholding, or implementation of life-sustaining treatments such as artificial nutrition and hydration challenge nurses on a daily basis. To meet these challenges, nurses need the composite skills of moral and ethical discernment, ... Read more...

The clinical approach to lung disease in patients with cystic fibrosis.

14 Sep 2009 There is strong evidence that early, aggressive therapy of lung disease leads to improved quality and quantity of life for patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). The treatment of pulmonary disease associated with CF is multifactorial, encompassing ... Read more...

Involvement of adolescents in decision making for heart transplants.

30 Aug 2009 Every year, hundreds of children and adolescents are faced with the need for heart transplantation to survive end-stage cardiac disease. This experience extends far beyond the surgical intervention, for it begins with a waiting period that may ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Personal Autonomy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration. 29 Nov 2009
• Permanent sterilization of mentally disabled individuals: a case study. 30 Oct 2009
• Dealing with the ethical dimension of dementia care. Oct 2009
• Ethical care in dementia. 30 Sep 2009
• Enhancing meaning in work: a prescription for preventing physician burnout and promoting patient-centered care. 21 Sep 2009
• The case for killing granny. Rethinking end-of-life care. 19 Sep 2009
• The clinical approach to lung disease in patients with cystic fibrosis. 14 Sep 2009
• Involvement of adolescents in decision making for heart transplants. 30 Aug 2009
• Patterns of home leaving and subjective well-being in emerging adulthood: the role of motivational processes and parental autonomy support. 30 Aug 2009
• Autonomy, beneficence, and gezelligheid: lessons in moral theory from the Dutch. 30 Aug 2009
• Saturday morning in the clinic. 30 Aug 2009
• Valued to the end. 30 Aug 2009
• [Patient autonomy at the end of life: "law regarding advance directives" confirms the previously assumed legal status] 30 Aug 2009
• Comment 2: consent of children for non-therapeutic surgical procedures - general issues. 30 Aug 2009
• Think different: presidential address at the 2009 Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. 30 Aug 2009
• Shared decision-making and patient autonomy. 20 Aug 2009
• Coming 'down here': young people's reflections on becoming entrenched in a local drug scene. 19 Aug 2009
• The search for reasons in a unified relationship. 17 Aug 2009
• Ethical issues relating the the banking of umbilical cord blood in Mexico. 12 Aug 2009
• Health professionals' enactment of their accountability obligations: doing the best they can. 6 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Personal Autonomy'

Definition: Self-directing freedom and especially moral independence. An ethical principle holds that the autonomy of persons ought to be respected. (Bioethics Thesaurus)

Descriptor UI: D026684

Alternative terms: Personal Autonomy; Autonomy, Personal; Self Determination; Free Will;

Related Mesh Headings: Self Concept; Professional Autonomy; Paternalism;

Tree Number: F02.600; I01.880.604.473.380.500; K01.316.756.650; K01.752.256.830.650; N03.706.437.380.500;

History Note: 2002; for SELF DETERMINATION use FREEDOM 1990-2001