“Instead of defining independence as ‘self-sufficiency,’ the standard for independence in the clinical setting where they’d been treated as patients, they claimed that their independence would be understood instead as ‘self-determination.’ The difference separated the dignity of authority and choice from the action itself.”

“Instead of defining independence as ‘self-sufficiency,’ the standard for independence in the clinical setting where they’d been treated as patients, they claimed that their independence would be understood instead as ‘self-determination.’ The difference separated the dignity of authority and choice from the action itself.”

— Sara Hendren