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‘It’s Not Just About Having Babies’: A Socio-bioethical Exploration of Older Women’s Experiences of Making Oncofertility Decisions in Britain

In Hauke Riesch, Nathan Emmerich & Steven Wainwright (eds.), Philosophies and Sociologies of Bioethics: Crossing the Divides. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. pp. 93-105 (2018)

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Fairness, Ethnicity, and COVID-19 Ethics.Alexis Paton - 2020 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 17 (4):595-600.details Recent weeks have seen an increased focus on the ethical response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ethics guidance has proliferated across Britain, with ethicists and those with a keen interest in ethics in their professions working to produce advice and support for the National Health Service. The guiding principles of the pandemic have emerged, in one form or another, to favour fairness, especially with regard to allocating resources and prioritizing care. However, fairness is not equivalent to equity when it comes to (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
“Being Guided”: What Oncofertility Patients’ Decisions Can Teach Us about the Efficacy of Autonomy, Agency, and Decision- Making Theory in the Contemporary Clinical Encounter.Alexis Paton - 2019 - International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 12 (2):18-35.details Recent research on patient decision-making reveals a disconnect between theories of autonomy, agency, and decision-making and their practice in contemporary clinical encounters. This study examines these concepts in the context of female patients making oncofertility decisions in the United Kingdom in light of the phenomenon of “being guided.” Patients experience being guided as a way to cope with, understand, and defer difficult treatment decisions. Previous discussions condemn guided decision-making, but this research suggests that patients make an informed, autonomous decision to (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations

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