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Choosing for Another: Beyond Autonomy and Best Interests
- Hastings Center Report
- The Hastings Center
- Volume 39, Number 2, March-April 2009
- pp. 31-37
- 10.1353/hcr.0.0113
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
According to bioethics orthodoxy, when we ask, "What would the patient choose?" the patient's autonomy is at stake. In fact, what underpins the moral force of that question is a value different from either autonomy or best interests. This is the value of doing things in a way that is authentic to the person.
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