2000a). Chaloner (2007) asserted that to make an ethically appropriate decision, it is important to engage in a process of ethical analysis, for example the application of the ethics of care and the ethics of justice (Botes 2000a). Following a literature review, Tuckett (2004) identified themes relating to the ethical argument for and against truth-telling. These themes were autonomy, physical ...

Autonomy, literally meaning self-rule, is an essential ethical principle, especially within the field of medicine. An individual with autonomy can make decisions on the basis of reflection and deliberation [1]. In general philosophy, autonomy is thought of as “the ability to be one's own person, to live life according to rationale and purpose that are taken as one's own and not the consequence ...

party autonomy and parties freedom in choosing the governing law to non-contractual liabilities, when this litigation has accompanied with international elements , is one of the innovations european law during approval the rome ii regulationwhich facilitates the simultaneous and balanced access to certainty and flexibility as two conflicting interests , and is accordance withmost recent theorie...

In this paper we present effects of reciprocal exchanges on trust and autonomy of peer level agents. We present models of trust and autonomy and show changes to autonomy and trust in an abstract problem domain. As social exchanges increase, average agent autonomy is increased. Autonomy and trust are more susceptible to certain number of social ties among agents mirroring the principle of peak p...

Introduction: Patient autonomy has been a cornerstone of contemporary clinical ethics since the Nuremberg trial, especially in American school of bioethics. Topic: Patient autonomy has been defi ned in the Nuremberg Code, and re-defi ned in the Declaration of Helsinki, Belmont Report and Barcelona Declaration. Founders and followers of the rights-oriented bioethics (for example, Hellegers, Beau...

The application of the principle of autonomy, which is considered a cornerstone of contemporary bioethics, is sometimes in obvious contradiction with the principle of beneficence. Indeed, it may happen in chronic care that the preferences of the health care provider (HCP), who is largely focused on the prevention of long term complications of diseases, differ from those, more present oriented, ...