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Autonomy and Long-Term Care (Hardcover, New)
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Autonomy and Long-Term Care (Hardcover, New)
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The realities and misconceptions of long-term care and the
challenges it presents for the ethics of autonomy are analyzed in
this perceptive work. While defending the concept of autonomy, the
author argues that the standard view of autonomy as
non-interference and independence has only a limited applicability
for long-term care. He explains that autonomy should be understood
as a comprehensiveness that defines the overall course of a
person's life rather than as a way of responding to an isolated
situation. Agich distinguishes actual and ideal autonomy and argues
that actual autonomy is better revealed in the everyday experiences
of long-term care than in dramatic, conflict-ridden paradigm
situations such as decisions to institutionalize, to initiate
aggressive treatments, or to withhold or to withdraw
life-sustaining treatments. Through a phenomenological analysis of
long-term care, he develops an ethical framework for it by showing
how autonomy is actually manifest in certain structural features of
the social world of long-term care. Throughout this timely work,
the rich sociological and anthropological literature on aging and
long-term care is referenced and the practical ethical questions of
promoting and enhancing the exercise of autonomy are addressed.
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