medical autonomy
Healthcare decision rights
Medical autonomy is the right of patients to make decisions about their own healthcare, including the right to accept or refuse treatment.
The principle underlies informed consent—doctors must explain options and risks, but the patient decides.
Debates over medical autonomy arise around end-of-life care, reproductive rights, vaccination requirements, and treatment of minors: She invoked her medical autonomy to refuse chemotherapy.
- bodilyOf the physical form
- bodily integrityControl over one's form
- consentVoluntary agreement given
- informed consentPermission given with understanding
- refusalAct of declining
right to refuse · choice · self-determination · informed · patient · rights · sovereignty · agency · competence · mental capacity · capacity · dignity · privacy · decision · treatment · advance directive · living will · DNR
- Body Rightsself-ownership, reproductive rights, patient rights, right to refuse, personal space
- sexual freedomsexual liberation, sexual revolution, sexual freedom, free love, consent
medical autonomyinvoluntary treatment
Medical care given despite refusal
compulsory treatment · court-ordered treatment · guardianship · conservatorship
medical autonomyforced medication
Involuntary administration of drugs
involuntary commitment · forced sterilization · compulsory vaccination · chemical restraint · court-ordered treatment
medical, medicine, medic, medicinal, medicinally, medicate, medication, medicated, medicating