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  • Medical Ethics
  • Political Philosophy

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  • Informed consent is crucial for patient autonomy.
  • Physicians balance beneficence with patient autonomy.
  • Nudges are proposed to reconcile this balance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the ethical permissibility of using nudges in informed consent.
  • To analyze the impact of nudges on patient autonomy and republican freedom.
  • To propose alternative strategies to nudging.

Main Methods:

  • Philosophical argumentation and ethical analysis.
  • Examination of concepts: informed consent, beneficence, autonomy, republican freedom.
  • Comparative analysis of nudging versus alternative strategies.

Main Results:

  • Nudging in informed consent constitutes domination, violating patients' republican freedom.
  • Attempts to modify beneficence to permit nudging still threaten freedom under clinical equipoise.
  • Boosting and value-aligned physician pairing are ethically permissible alternatives.

Conclusions:

  • Nudging is ethically impermissible in informed consent due to its coercive nature.
  • Alternative methods ensure patient autonomy and republican freedom are respected.
  • Physician-patient value alignment offers a non-coercive approach to shared decision-making.