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When do nudges undermine voluntary consent?

Maximilian Kiener¹

¹Faculty of Philosophy, The Queen's College, University of Oxford, High Street, Oxford, OX1 4AW UK.

Philosophical Studies

|November 1, 2021

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Nudges in healthcare may undermine patient consent. Modified conditions of transparency, rationality, and resistibility can assess this, but a simpler ethical framework based on interpersonal justification is proposed.

Keywords:

Interpersonal justification Nudging Rationality Resistibility Transparency Voluntary consent

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Area of Science:

Bioethics
Public Policy
Medical Law

Background:

Nudging is debated in public policy using transparency, rationality, and easy resistibility criteria.
The ethical implications of nudging on voluntary medical consent remain underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate when nudges undermine voluntary patient consent for medical procedures.
To adapt existing nudging assessment criteria (transparency, rationality, easy resistibility) for evaluating medical consent.

Main Methods:

Analysis of ethical frameworks for nudging.
Application of modified transparency, rationality, and easy resistibility conditions to medical consent scenarios.
Development of an alternative ethical framework based on interpersonal justification.

Main Results:

Modified transparency, rationality, and easy resistibility criteria can be applied to voluntary medical consent, though substantial adjustments are needed.
A simpler ethical framework is proposed: nudging undermines consent if it cannot be "interpersonally justified" to the patient.

Conclusions:

Existing nudging assessment criteria require significant modification for medical consent.
Interpersonal justification offers a more elegant and unified framework for assessing the ethical permissibility of nudging in medical consent contexts.