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Choosing Life, Choosing Death, The Tyranny of Autonomy in Medical Ethics and Law, by Charles Foster. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2009, xxvi + 183 + (index) 6pp (£22.50 paperback). ISBN 978-1-84113-929-6.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jonathan Herring
Jonathan Herring*
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Exeter College, University of Oxford
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Legal Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , June 2010 , pp. 330 - 333
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63. Choosing Life, Choosing Death, The Tyranny of Autonomy in Medical Law and Ethics p 93.

64. Ibid, p 107.

65. Ibid, p 123.

66. Ibid, p 1.

67. Ibid, p 181.

68. Ibid, p 3, fn 2.

69. Gillon, R Ethics needs principles – four can encompass the rest – and respect for autonomy should be “first among equals” ’ (2003) 29 Journal of Medical Ethics 307.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

70. Choosing Life, Choosing Death, The Tyranny of Autonomy in Medical Law and Ethics p ix.

71. Although elsewhere in the book he complains that ‘the academic world roars out deafeningly’ in praise of autonomy: ibid, p 181.

72. There is nothing more annoying than completely unnecessary footnotes.

73. Ibid, p 181.

74. Ibid, ch 2.

75. Ibid, p 121.

76. Ibid, p 18.

77. Ibid, p x.

78. Ibid, p 108.

79. Ibid, p 52.

80. Ibid.

81. Ibid, p x.

82. Ibid.

83. Ibid.

84. Ibid, pp 149–151.

85. Anyone seeking that should look at the quite excellent recent book by Maclean, Alasdair Autonomy, Informed Consent and Medical Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).CrossRefGoogle Scholar