title: [Advance directives and patient autonomy: Searching for an ethical perception].
abstract: The complexity of the discussion about the advance directive requires not only juridical, but most importantly ethical considerations. These are advanced in three steps in this article: a reflection about the changed perception of death and dying today after the anthropological and technological turn; a new understanding of the notion of autonomy as contextual, historical and communicative; autonomy as a process of learning. The discussion about the advance directive becomes thus a space for thinking about new forms of integrated care and a dignified death.
authors.affiliation: Universität Münster. autiero@uni-muenster.de
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Autiero
mesh_terms: D016223:Advance Directives / Q000941:ethics*; D005065:Euthanasia / Q000941:ethics; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D026684:Personal Autonomy