Montgomery v Lanarkshire HB is a deeply troubling decision when read closely. Paradoxically, its ruling supporting the principle of autonomy could be justified only by disregarding the individual patient's actual choices and characteristics in favour of a stereotype. The decision demonstrates a lack of expertise in dealing with specific clinical issues and misrepresents professional guidance. M...

In this paper, we present a learning based method for the definition of the ARPH mobile platform configuration during grasping. Based on the principle of semi autonomy, the proposed scheme uses information provided by the user to help him(her) during the tedious task of manually coordinating the robot motions. From a crude posture provided by the user a reinforcement scheme is used to optimize ...

In this paper we sketch a model in which agents are autonomous not only because they can choose among alternative courses of action (executive autonomy), but also because they can select and pursue new goals on the basis of endogenously generated interests (goal autonomy). We use economic models to argue that goal autonomy can be defined by introducing a precise notion of an agent’s identity. 1...

Shared decision making combines individual patient interests and values with clinical best evidence under the guiding principle of patient autonomy. Patient decision aids can support shared decision making and facilitate decisions that have multiple options with varying outcomes for which patients may attribute different values. Given the variable psychosocial impact of skin disease on individu...

Informed consent is reviewed as it applies to psychiatric patients. Although new legislation, such as the Mental Health Act 1983, provides a useful safeguard for the protection of the civil rights of patients, it could actually reduce their humane care unless applied with sensitivity for the nature of their unique difficulties. In order to guard against this possibility, we suggest that legal r...

this descriptive cross sectional census study identified the perceptions of extension and outreach employees of iowa state university in the united states about job autonomy and control after two years of a major restructuring. employees perceived autonomy and control over expressing views and ideas about their work and spending time on the job but perceived little influence over budget allocat...

Ethics requires a critical evaluation of assumptions and arguments about norms and values; what should be done and what should not. Practitioners should practice ethically, and the professions should be at the forefront of applied ethics. There are four principles, patient autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice, which are guides to ethical dayto-day practice. Patient autonomy: auton...

The aim of this research is to analyze the social representations of autonomy shared among public school teachers, in order to identify the relationships they establish with information and communication technologies – how is the ICT in the teaching practice. There are several discussions around the concept of autonomy, which is defended as an educational principle that must be present in both ...