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what are the specific criteria that should be used to determine autonomy and why?

Answer 1

Ans) Autonomy is an individual's capacity for self-determination or self-governance. Moral autonomy, usually traced back to Kant, is the capacity to deliberate and to give oneself the moral law, rather than merely heeding the injunctions of others.

- In medical practice autonomy is usually expressed as the right of competent adults to make informed decisions about their own medical care. The principle underlies the requirement to seek the consent or informed agreement of the patient before any investigation or treatment takes place.

- Personal autonomy is widely valued. The principle of respect for autonomy is usually associated with allowing or enabling patients to make their own decisions about which health care interventions they will or will not receive.

- As long as medical ethics refers to the procedural conception of autonomy and more plausible arguments for the view that patients’ autonomy has intrinsic value are not presented, patients’ autonomy should be taken to have only instrumental value in medicine.