Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Informed Consent, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Relate

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2610F/G
• Professor: Ken Kirkwood

Document Summary

Themes for today: autonomy, informed consent, truthfulness & honesty, confidentiality. Mill said: we should never interfere with a person"s freedom except in three situations: He or she doesn"t know or understand what"s happening: e. g. You are not aware of what is happening. He or she is going to harm you: e. g. He or she is going to harm another person. Autonomy 4 aspects: free action, effective deliberations, authenticity, moral reflection. Can be limited by internal and external forces. Internal forces = have profound fear or mental problem that prevents you from doing the thing you want to do: external forces = other people preventing you from doing it. Autonomy is not automatic: you must demonstrate the ability to self-rule. Society sets standards and limits by saying what is poor or reasonable self-rule: society judges what is different, e. g. You have cancer and you quit intervening early why: we judge self-rule and we question it.