PHI 2396 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Kantian Ethics
10 Jan 2018
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Informed consent is the action of an autonomous informed person agreeing to submit tot medical treatment or experimentation. Arises from the idea that if patients are autonomous they should have the right to decide what can and cannot be done to their bodies. It is a legal requirement compelling healthcare providers to disclose information about treatments before proceeding. Promotes the best for the patients because the patients has their own best interest at heart and will decide accordingly. They are less likely to accept avoidable risks and will protect themselves from abuses. Many critics see discrepancies between the laws implementing content and the informed consent itself. It does occur that a patient signs a consent form without being fully informed or autonomous. Competence is the ability to render decisions about medical intervention - one who is incompetent for whatever reason shall not be burdened with decision making and these decisions will fall upon a proxy.
