Abstract This article seeks to characterize the respect principle of autonomy in care indigenous peoples Brazilian territory, based on reports experiences and a bibliographic review. It concluded that this must be specially consolidated practical actions health developed alongside different cultures, as is case communities.

Employee ownership has ideological cachet in all advanced industrialized democracies. For many observers, the principle of selfgovernance underlying political democracy extends to the economic sphere. All institutions essential to the basic structure of society must be consistent with the norms of moral equality and autonomy. Since corporations allocate income in a market society, and thereby d...

A health care relationship is based on classic premises of autonomy, benefit to the patient, justice and non-maleficence (or the "do no harm" principle). Moral rules are principles that should guide professional conduct, they have no legal power but are self imposed by the group and oblige all professionals to act accordingly. Although the capacity of any imprisoned individual to make decisions...

Legal recognition of patient's rights aspired to change clinical relationship and medical lex artis. However, its implementation has been hampered by the scarcity of resources and the abundance of regulations. For several years, autonomy, consent, and responsibility have formed one of the backbones of the medical profession. However, they have sparked controversy and professional discomfort. In...

A parallel can be made between the human rights discourse and the global bioethics discourse along two axes: 1) the ongoing relativist-universalist debate in both fields, 2) the overlap of the two discourses on the issue of the right to treatment as an issue of access.This article links the issue of right to treatment with an analysis of patient autonomy. In bioethics, it has been suggested tha...

Autonomy has been the central principle underpinning changes which have affected the practice of medicine in recent years. Medical education is undergoing changes as well, many of which are underpinned, at least implicitly, by increasing concern for autonomy. Some universities have embarked on graduate courses which utilize problem-based learning (PBL) techniques to teach all areas, including m...