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Tim Aylsworth1, Jake Greenblum2
1Florida International University, 11200 SW 8Th St, Miami, FL, 33199, USA. taylswor@fiu.edu.
Abstract:
There is wide consensus among bioethicists about the importance of autonomy when determining whether or not a patient has the right to refuse life-saving treatment (LST). In this context, autonomy has typically been understood in terms of the patient's ability to make an informed decision. According to the traditional view, decision-making capacity (DMC) is seen as both necessary and sufficient for the right to refuse LST. Recently, this view has been challenged by those who think that considerations of authenticity and putative counterexamples should lead us to revise the traditional account. In this paper, we respond to these revisionist arguments, and we defend the traditional view according to which we have autonomy-based reasons to respect a patient's decision to refuse LST if and only if she has DMC.
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