ISSN: 2691-5774
Authors: Albuquerque A*
The recognition of patients as subjects of law dates back to the 1970s. Annas points out that “the idea that patients have rights was strange and even quixotic until the early seventies” [1]. At that historical moment, patients’ rights movements gradually began to change the healthcare landscape [1]. The civil rights movement in the United States, aligned with feminism and the activism of psychiatric hospital inpatients, has called into question the idea of medical power over the patient’s body and brought to light the ethicallegal obligation to respect the patients’ self-determination.
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