This book develops a unique account of autonomy in which its attribution to agents is dependent in part on their relationships with others and not merely upon t

Argues against the conceptions of individual autonomy which are widely relied on in bioethics.

Personal autonomy is often lauded as a key value in contemporary Western bioethics, and the claim that there is an important relationship between autonomy and r

The principle of patient autonomy dominates the contemporary debate over medical ethics. In this examination of the doctor-patient relationship, physician and p

This collection of original essays explores the social and relational dimensions of individual autonomy. Rejecting the feminist charge that autonomy is inherent