However, although earlier work is characterized by the intention to use PD to capture patients' needs, few studies analyse the development process and design results in relation to the emerging ideas of person-centred care.
It thus takes seriously the idea of persons as individually responsible agents each with their own life to live.
Eventually, rights arise which are not based on the primacy of these earlier, less developed social institutions, but on the idea of persons as discrete and potentially rational individuals.
Catharine MacKinnon appeals to Kant's idea of persons as ends to explain the moral problem of pornography: "A person, in one Kantian view, is a free and rational agent whose existence is an end in itself, as opposed to instrumental.
At first glance, the idea of person-to-person car sharing appears to be the perfect solution to any number of problems.
Over the last few years the health and social care system has begun to embrace the idea of "person-centred, co-ordinated care" that shifts the focus from organisations back to the experience of the person needing support.
The idea of person-to-person payment services, which have both good and bad points, found its footing in online auctions, where a speedy payment system is crucial to completing fast-paced transactions.
Nowadays, he is more likely to snatch a bite with Aaron, who conceived the idea of "Person to Person," and spend the evening working on it with him, or to meet Friendly for dinner and talk over ideas for "See It Now" programs.
An unreflective emphasis on preferences can tend to detach the idea of person-centered care from what is ethically significant especially when preferences are not well informed, stable, strong, or good, or do not relate to issues of importance (Epstein and Peters 2009; O'Neill 2002).
When theologians began to criticize orthodox ideas of the person and work of Christ, therefore, they met with opposition from the common people.
