Abstract
Global healthcare and healthcare policies are evolving with change at a swift pace. Inherent in the discussions of a person’s right to choose health is the notion of freedom. The author in this column compares and contrasts bioethical views of freedom and autonomy with alternative views and possibilities by examining an ethic of freedom grounded from a different paradigm, the humanbecoming nursing theoretical perspective.
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