Personal Identity and Patient-Centered Medical Decision Making

"Personal Identity and Patient-Centered Medical Decision Making." AJOB Neuroscience, 8(3), pp. 194–195

Notes

1. A sufficiently robust account of continuity might be the best way to approach personal identity on a global level, throughout the course of the patient's entire life. But faced with a certain decision, it may be better to focus on connectedness; to what extent do the existing psychological elements that constitute the patient remain, and to what extent are they disrupted or replaced? For more on this distinction, see Parfit (1971).