The Place of Autonomy in Bioethics

Childress defends the principle of respect for personal autonomy as among several important moral principles in biomedical ethics. His main focuses on the autonomy principle as "an important moral limit and as. " As a moral limit, the principle of respect for personal autonomy actions, but is itself limited in scope and weight, as well as complex in its application. Childress argues that both critics and of personal autonomy tend to neglect these senses of limit in their on an "oversimplified, overextended, overweighted principle of respect autonomy. " (KIE abstract)