Autonomy-Based Obligations to Patients in the Emergency Department Following Opioid Overdose

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Revive and Refuse: Capacity, Autonomy, and Refusal of Care After Opioid Overdose

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1 For more on the distinction between autonomy-as-sovereignty and autonomy-as-authenticity, see Brudney and Lantos (2011), Enoch (2022), and Schwan (2021). For a canonical discussion of autonomy as a value (to be promoted) and as a demand (to be respected), see Darwall (2006).

2 Importantly, risk-sensitive approaches to DMC are well-positioned to capture these tradeoffs between well-being and autonomy considerations. For a recent, forceful defense of a risk-sensitive approach to DMC, see Kim and Berens (2023). For concerns about capacity assessments obscuring such tradeoffs, see Fogal and Schwan (2023forthcoming).

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