PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sleep Deprivation, Paternalism, Outline Of Health Sciences
11 Sep 2017
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Environmental impacts may affect the relative level of decision making competence. Side effects of medications often impair competence, but a change of medication may reduce those affects. A person may be competent to make a decision about whether to have a surgery if the choice is presence of family, but it may be incompetent when presented this choice at the hospital. Would we consider an autonomous moral agent that is someone who help make decisions that reflect our health. The question is whether or not the patient is competent of making decision for which she may be held responsible. Deciding for others: competence allan buchanan and dan w. brock. These two argue that the determination of competence ought to be amdeon a decions =by-decision basis. Setting the standard for competence involved a trade off between respecting the patie(cid:374)t"s self deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)ation. If a doctor is sworn to a certain duty to save the patient.
