Journal of medical ethics
"Who is still there?": phenomenological reflections on selfhood and ethical recognition in dementia care.
Junguo Zhang
Published: 202510.1136/jme-2025-111298
Abstract
Dementia challenges conventional autonomy models that equate moral agency with rational decision-making and consistent choice. Clinical responses-reliance on advance directives and surrogate decision-makers-often fail to capture the lived reality of…
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