The Exercise of Autonomy by Older Cancer Patients in Palliative Care: The Biotechnoscientific and Biopolitical Paradigms and the Bioethics of Protection
Toward the end of life, older cancer patients with terminal illness often prefer palliative over life-extending care and also prefer to die at home. However, care planning is not always consistent with patients’ preferences. In this article, discussions will be centered on patients’ autonomy of exer...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Palliative Care |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1178224216684831 |