Case study

Autonomy –When autonomy is removed in order to treat someone ‘for their own good’ this is called paternalism. Paternalism is often referred to in a

negative context as it removes autonomy, however it may be a positive if it is used in cases where autonomy is not possible. For example, someone who is

in a coma without an ACD, or an elderly patient with advanced dementia (ethics here can be grey).

Veracity is telling the truth, and is often compared with deception. Deception may be implying a falsehood or allowing someone to believe a falsehood

without explicitly lying to them – the concept may be morally similar to lying as you have allowed a lie to exist even without verbalising it.