Susan Pennings

Feb 20, 2024 | jme.bmj.com | Susan Pennings |Xavier Symons |Australian Catholic

Implications for the theory and practice of medical ethicsIf autonomy is to do the moral work that it is often expected to do in bioethics, it would certainly be desirable that we had an account of autonomy that provided us with a clear means of distinguishing normal preferences from inappropriately adaptive preferences. However, it is difficult to have a working definition of autonomy according to which all normal preferences are distinguished from all inappropriately adaptive preferences.