Autonomy and Long-Term Care

Name: Autonomy and Long-Term Care
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ISBN: 9780195074956

ISBN-10: 0195074955

ISBN-13: 9780195074956

Edition: 1993

Authors: George J. Agich

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The realities and myths of long-term care and the challenges it poses for the ethics of autonomy are analysed in this perceptive work. The author argues that the standard view of autonomy as non-interference and independence has limited applicability for long term care. He offers an account of `actual autonomy' in which individuals are perceived to be interdependent with others and the world. Hence, actual autonomy stresses the developmental and social nature of the individual. Through a phenomenological analysis of long term care, the author develops an ethical framework for it by showing how autonomy is actually manifest in certain structural features of the social world of long term…

Book details

List price: $77.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/20/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.49" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English