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Autonomy and paternalism in communitarian society. Patient rights in Israel
1University of Haifa, Israel.
The Hastings Center Report
|August 19, 1999
Abstract:
The Israeli Patient Rights Act attempts to accommodate personal autonomy within an avowedly paternalist communitarian state. Although Israel is still groping toward a solution, the legislation begins to show the different form a communitarian version of autonomy must take.