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Relational Autonomy and Multiculturalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2010

FABRIZIO TUROLDO
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The principle of autonomy, through various court rulings, gradually became part of medical practice and tradition in the second half of the 1800s, notably when the emergence of surgical anaesthesia began to raise serious questions regarding informed consent. In fact, surgical anaesthesia was initially used not only to avoid pain but also to combat patients’ resistance to operations.

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Dissecting Bioethics
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , October 2010 , pp. 542 - 549
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