title: Overvaluing autonomous decision-making.
abstract: Current capacity-based legislation and practice overvalues autonomy to the detriment of other ethical principles. A balanced ethical approach would consider the patient's right to treatment, their relationships and interactions with society and not solely the patient's right to liberty and autonomous decision-making.
authors.affiliation: Peter Lepping, MSc, MRCPsych, Department of Psychiatry, Centre for Mental Health and Society, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, UK; Bevinahalli Nanjegowda Raveesh, MSc, MBBS, MD(Psy), Department of Psychiatry, Mysore Medical College, India.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lepping
authors.forename: Bevinahalli Nanjegowda
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Raveesh
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making / Q000941:ethics; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D028701:Patient Rights / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D026684:Personal Autonomy