AGENCY AND MORAL RELATIONSHIP IN DEMENTIA

被引：18
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作者：
Jennings, Bruce [1 ]
机构：
[1] Ctr Humans & Nat, New York, NY 10024 USA
来源：
METAPHILOSOPHY | 2009年 / 40卷 / 3-4期
关键词：
agency; Alzheimer's disease; caring; dementia; guardianship; goals of care; personhood; self; quality of life;
D O I：
10.1111/j.1467-9973.2009.01591.x
中图分类号：
B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号：
01 ; 0101 ;
摘要：
This essay examines the goals of care and the exercise of guardianship authority in the long-term care of persons with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of chronic, progressive dementia. It counters philosophical views that deny both agency and personhood to individuals with Alzheimer's on definitional or analytic conceptual grounds. It develops a specific conception of the quality of life and offers a critique of hedonic conceptions of quality of life and models of guardianship that are based on a hedonic legal standard of "best interests." As an alternative, it proposes a conception of quality of life based on the notions of "semantic agency" and "memorial personhood.".
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页码：425 / 437
页数：13
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