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Limits of Autonomy in Biomedical Ethics? Conceptual Clarifications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2011

THEDA REHBOCK
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In biomedical ethics the principle of autonomy is closely connected with the moral and legal claim to informed consent. After World War II and the dramatic misuse of medicine in Nazi Germany, informed consent regulations were expected to help avoid similar misuse in the future, to help overcome the traditional medical paternalism, and to advance the liberty rights of patients and human subjects of research. With the rise of the new field of bioethics in the 1970s, the traditional beneficence-based model of medical ethics shifted in the direction of an individual autonomy model.

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Special Section: From Informed Consent to No Consent?
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , October 2011 , pp. 524 - 532
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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