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Autonomy and Long-Term Care

By Agich, George J.

Autonomy and Long-Term Care

By Agich, George J.

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The realities and misconceptions of long-term care and the challenges it presents for the ethics of autonomy are analyzed in this perceptive work. While defending the concept of autonomy, the author argues that the standard view of autonomy as non-interference and independence has only a limited applicability for long-term care. He explains that autonomy should be understood as a comprehensiveness that defines the overall course of a person's life rather than as a way of responding to an isolated situation. Agich distinguishes actual and ideal autonomy and argues that actual autonomy is better revealed in the everyday experiences of long-term care than in dramatic, conflict-ridden paradigm situations such as decisions to institutionalize, to initiate aggressive treatments, or to withhold or to withdraw life-sustaining treatments. Through a phenomenological analysis of long-term care, he develops an ethical framework for it by showing how autonomy is actually manifest in certain structural features of the social world of long-term care. Throughout this timely work, the rich sociological and anthropological literature on aging and long-term care is referenced and the practical ethical questions of promoting and enhancing the exercise of autonomy are addressed.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
212
Release Date:
1993-05-20
Publication Date:
1993-05-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0195074955
ISBN13:
9780195074956
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[email protected]
Weight:
487 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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