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Personal Autonomy

"Personal Autonomy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Self-directing freedom and especially moral independence. An ethical principle holds that the autonomy of persons ought to be respected. (Bioethics Thesaurus)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Personal Autonomy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Personal Autonomy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 95 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 1997 and 2003 and 2009 and 2014
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