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  • 1Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, UK. t.walker@peak.keele.ac.uk

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Ethics
  • Bioethics
  • Philosophy of Medicine

Background:

  • Voluntary consent is a moral and legal requirement for treating competent patients and conducting research with competent participants.
  • Informed consent is widely considered essential in medical ethics, primarily to uphold patient autonomy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To challenge the prevailing view that informed consent is necessary to respect patient autonomy.
  • To critically examine prominent conceptualizations of 'autonomy' within medical ethics literature.

Main Methods:

  • Detailed analysis of three major conceptualizations of autonomy in medical ethics.
  • Argumentative approach to deconstruct the link between autonomy and informed consent.

Main Results:

  • The study acknowledges that consent is vital for respecting patient autonomy.
  • However, it finds that existing accounts of autonomy do not necessitate 'informed' consent for this purpose.

Conclusions:

  • While voluntary consent is indispensable for respecting autonomy, the 'informed' aspect is not supported by current autonomy frameworks.
  • Re-evaluation of the justification for informed consent in medical ethics is warranted.