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dc.contributor.authorWackers, Ger
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-01T14:08:04Z
dc.date.available2017-03-01T14:08:04Z
dc.date.issued2016-12-29
dc.description.abstractIn professional guidelines for palliative sedation in end-of life care, a particular notion of conscious life experience is associated with specific cognitivist notion of frontal lobe autonomy. Drawing on Turner and Fauconnier’s work in cognitive linguistics I argue in this chapter that even our most central notions like human subjectivity and autonomy are conceptual blends. This chapter explores the origins and emergence of these concepts and their entailments. It digs deep into the conceptual blending of the ontogenetic development of the individual with the phylogenetic history of life. This hyper-blend of the flesh is contrasted with the hyper-blend of an irreal, non-material deep, inner space that is co-extensive with consciousness and with the rational, operative agent constituting the human subject. The last part of the chapter explores the frictions and problematic entailments of these different hyper-blends for end-of-life care practices concerning brain death, persistent vegetative state and palliative sedation. Despite respect for a patient’s autonomy being first among the principles of medical ethics, cognitivist criteria used in the assessment of a patient’s decision-making competence reduce and constrain (truncate) the patient’s autonomy in a variety of ways in one of the situations in life where it should matter most, in dying.en_US
dc.descriptionPublished version. Source at <a href=http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/66044> http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/66044 </a>en_US
dc.identifier.citationWackers G. L.: Truncated Autonomy: Neocortical Selves, Reverse Reductionism and End-of-Life Care. In: Clark. Bioethics - Medical, Ethical and Legal Perspectives, 2016. INTECH p. 181-198en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1446323
dc.identifier.isbn978-953-51-2847-2
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/10405
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherIntechen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectcognitivist neocortical autonomyen_US
dc.subjectconceptual blendingen_US
dc.subjectend-of-life careen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Filosofiske fag: 160::Etikk: 164en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Philosophical disciplines: 160::Ethics: 164en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Medisinsk/odontologisk etikk, atferdsfag, historie: 805en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Medical/dental ethics, behavioural sciences, history: 805en_US
dc.titleTruncated Autonomy: Neocortical Selves, Reverse Reductionism and End-of-Life Careen_US
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