Paradox of choice and the illusion of autonomy: The construction of ethical subjects in right-to-die activism.
The right to die is an issue is predicated on larger cultural understandings of autonomy. Autonomy, in turn, is centered around assumptions of choice, that individuals are able to make health-related decisions based on a rational calculation. In such a way, a medically assisted death is differentiat...
| Publicado en: | Death Studies Vol. 42; no. 5; pp. 329 - 336 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May/Jun2018
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