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Personal autonomy and mental capacity
Psychiatry, 12/07/2009
Freyenhagen F et al. – The capacity is commonly linked within philosophy to (personal) autonomy, that is, to the idea, or ideal, of self–government. However, philosophers disagree deeply about what constitutes autonomy. This contribution brings out how the competing conceptions of autonomy would play out in psychiatric practice, taking anorexia nervosa as a test case.
