caa a22 4500 445798300 CHVBK 20180317145133.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11017-011-9180-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11017-011-9180-2 Agency and authenticity: Which value grounds patient choice? [Elektronische Daten] [Daniel Brudney, John Lantos] In current American medical practice, autonomy is assumed to be more valuable than human life: if a patient autonomously refuses lifesaving treatment, the doctors are supposed to let him die. In this paper we discuss two values that might be at stake in such clinical contexts. Usually, we hear only of autonomy and best interests. However, here, autonomy is ambiguous between two concepts—concepts that are tied to different values and to different philosophical traditions. In some cases, the two values (that of agency and that of authenticity) entail different outcomes. We argue that the comparative value of these values needs to be assessed. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Agency nationallicence Authenticity nationallicence Autonomy nationallicence Best interests nationallicence Kant nationallicence Mill nationallicence Brudney Daniel Department of Philosophy, The University of Chicago, 1115 East 58th Street, 60637, Chicago, IL, USA aut Lantos John University of Missouri at Kansas City and Children's Mercy Bioethics Center, Kansas City, MO, USA aut Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Springer Netherlands 32/4(2011-08-01), 217-227 1386-7415 32:4<217 2011 32 11017 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-011-9180-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-011-9180-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brudney Daniel Department of Philosophy, The University of Chicago, 1115 East 58th Street, 60637, Chicago, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lantos John University of Missouri at Kansas City and Children's Mercy Bioethics Center, Kansas City, MO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Springer Netherlands 32/4(2011-08-01), 217-227 1386-7415 32:4<217 2011 32 11017 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer