Withholding policies from patients restricts their autonomy

Withholding truth from patients

2000a). Chaloner (2007) asserted that to make an ethically appropriate decision, it is important to engage in a process of ethical analysis, for example the application of the ethics of care and the ethics of justice (Botes 2000a). Following a literature review, Tuckett (2004) identified themes relating to the ethical argument for and against truth-telling. These themes were autonomy, physical ...

Autonomy and privacy: protecting patients from their physicians.

Legal issues concerning the withholding of feeding from patients.

The law surrounding the withholding or withdrawal of feeding from patients is complex and dependent upon case law (also known as common law or judge-made law). There are no statutory provisions and the leading case in this area is the Tony Bland case (Alredale NHS Trust v Bland, 1993).

Existential autonomy: why patients should make their own choices.

Savulescu has recently introduced the "rational non-interventional paternalist" model of the patient-doctor relationship. This paper addresses objections to such a model from the perspective of an anaesthetist. Patients need to make their own decisions if they are to be fully autonomous. Rational non-interventional paternalism undermines the importance of patient choice and so threatens autonom...

Confidentiality Policies and Their Extraction from Programs

We examine a well known confidentiality requirement called noninterference and argue that manysystems do not meet this requirement despite maintaining the privacy of its users. We discussa weaker requirement called incident-insensitive noninterference that captures why these systemsmaintain the privacy of its users while possibly not satisfying noninterference. We extend thisreq...