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    • Bioethics
    • Medical Ethics
    • Philosophy of Medicine

    Background:

    • Identity-changing medical interventions present unique ethical challenges.
    • Current bioethical frameworks, centered on informed consent, struggle with interventions that alter a patient's identity.
    • Treating identity changes as mere side effects oversimplifies complex ethical considerations.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To ethically justify identity-changing medical interventions within contemporary bioethics.
    • To critique the standard approach of informing patients about identity effects as 'normal' side effects.
    • To propose a novel ethical framework for evaluating consent to identity-altering procedures.

    Main Methods:

    • Philosophical analysis of informed consent in bioethics.
    • Conceptual critique of existing ethical approaches to medical interventions.
    • Development of a new ethical framework: the 'perspective-sensitive account'.

    Main Results:

    • The standard approach to informed consent for identity-changing interventions is ethically inadequate.
    • Decisions involving identity changes involve complexities beyond typical side effect considerations.
    • The 'perspective-sensitive account' offers a more robust ethical framework.

    Conclusions:

    • Identity-changing interventions require a more nuanced ethical approach than currently practiced.
    • The 'perspective-sensitive account' provides the necessary conceptual tools for ethical deliberation and valid consent.
    • Ethical justification of these interventions hinges on a deeper understanding of identity and decision-making.