Le principe d'autonomie dans les avis du Comité Consultatif National d'Éthique: quelles limites?

The National Consultative Ethics Committee considers autonomy as a fundamental ethical principle who has supplanted the principle of beneficence in all fields of medical relationship. However, this principle entails some limits. Without neglecting the contribution of beneficence, the Committee explores the boundaries of that concept in its definition, which “it is not restricted to whim of good will”, and confronts it to solidarity and liability principle. For the Committee, “autonomy of free choice is relational”.