At the limits of patient autonomy: an ethical re-evaluation of coroner’s postmortems
Patient autonomy is one of the four pillars of modern medical ethics. In some cases, however, its value is not absolute and autonomy may be overridden by sufficiently important matters of public interest. Coroner’s autopsies represent an example of when the wishes of the deceased and their family ma...
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BMJ Publ.
2021
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2021, Volume: 47, Issue: 12, Pages: 830-834 |
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