[What is patient autonomy?]

Guillaume Durand1

  • 1Centre de recherche en éducation de Nantes-CREN (EA 2661), Centre atlantique de philosophie-CAPHI (EA 2163), Université de Nantes, chemin de la Censive-du-Tertre, 44000 Nantes, France; Consultation d'Ethique Clinique du CHU de Nantes, Hôpital Bellier, 41 rue Curie, 44093 Nantes Cedex, France; Consultation d'éthique clinique de l'Hôpital mutualiste Jules-Verne, 2 route de Paris, 44000 Nantes, France; Maison des sciences de l'homme Ange-Guépin, USR 3491, 5 allée Jacques-Berque, 44000 Nantes, France.

Soins. Gerontologie
|November 16, 2016
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