Vigano, Eleonora (2018). The individual’s later self is less autonomous and a stranger: the impact of time in advance directives. Bioethica Forum, 11(4):165-167.
In intertemporal choices, time alters the distribution of decisional power over one’s life and detaches the individual from her later self. These two effects of time increase the later self’s vulnerability, when its will is in conflict with the earlier self’s will as expressed in advance directives (ADs). For this reason, ADs should take into account the impact of time on the future self by including strategies that protect the latter.
In intertemporal choices, time alters the distribution of decisional power over one’s life and detaches the individual from her later self. These two effects of time increase the later self’s vulnerability, when its will is in conflict with the earlier self’s will as expressed in advance directives (ADs). For this reason, ADs should take into account the impact of time on the future self by including strategies that protect the latter.
| Item Type: | Journal Article, refereed, original work |
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| Communities & Collections: | 04 Faculty of Medicine > Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 610 Medicine & health |
| Language: | English |
| Date: | 2018 |
| Deposited On: | 17 Dec 2019 11:37 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Feb 2020 14:22 |
| Publisher: | Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische Ethik / Schwabe |
| ISSN: | 1662-601X |
| OA Status: | Closed |
| Official URL: | http://www.bioethica-forum.ch/ |
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Vigano, Eleonora