In the meantime, we believe that women who are trying to control their disease should retain the autonomy to decide, based on the facts, whether Avastin is right for them.
Under such a program, states would get a set amount of federal money to spend on health care for the poor and disabled, along with the autonomy to decide how best to spend it.
A near absolute right of autonomy to decide about the disposition of organs and tissues has been the prevailing norm.
This is partly due to the conventional view that the teacher is the respected authority figure and has the full autonomy to decide what is best for students.
However, in the Philippines, the courts have accorded the individual autonomy to decide what constitutes religious practice.
All four reveal how standard bioethical questions such as how to protect patient autonomy and how to decide on a proper course of care become much harder to tease out and answer when we are confronting these vulnerabilities.
In a male dominated society, as is the case in many developing countries, often autonomy comes into conflict with beneficence, more commonly when a mother expects a male clinician or researcher to decide on her behalf.
The vote is to decide on a new Constitution intended to reunite the federation but to grant each island greater autonomy.
We suggest that the LHWs motivated patients to self-management by: (i) respecting patients' competence to decide on needs and priorities; (ii) forming relationships with patients as individuals; and (iii) fostering patients' sense of autonomy.
To decide on course organisation.
