The Moral Psychology of Autonomy in Healthcare

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FUNDING

Uehiro Oxford Institute RP Award

PROJECT DATES

Project duration: 3 years (1st September 2025 – 31st August 2028)

PI

Dr Joanna Demaree-Cotton

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

This project brings together moral philosophy and experimental psychology to explore autonomy-based rights in healthcare, with a particular focus on how psychological biases can lead to unequal respect for the medical autonomy of certain groups. A major focus of the project is investigating the ethics of ‘listening’. We aim to investigate what it means to be ‘genuinely listened to’, how failures of listening impact medical autonomy, and the nature, if any, of moral duties to listen to patients.

PROJECT OUTPUTS

The project outputs will be listed here in due course.