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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Main Authors: Márcio Niemeyer-Guimarães, Fermin Roland Schramm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-01-01
Series:Palliative Care
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1178224216684831