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Commentary: What Price Freedom?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2017

SARAH CHAN
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Special Section: Enhancement and Goodness
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , July 2017 , pp. 377 - 383
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The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council in funding an International Placement Scheme Fellowship (grant AH/N000579/1) at the National Institute for Humanities Japan; research conducted during this period contributed to the writing of this article.

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17. Savulescu and Persson make a similar point using the legend of Ulysses to illustrate how overriding a person’s present wishes can facilitate his long-term autonomy; see note 14, Savulescu, Persson 2012.