| Autor: |
DeMarco, Joseph P., Stewart, Douglas O. |
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International Journal of Ethics (1556-4444); 2016, Vol. 12 Issue 3, p135-150, 16p |
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Informed consent is in an unsettled state in both bioethics and the law. The central problem in both fields is the absence of a clear, general formulation that supports the kind of information a patient needs in order to make an informed decision. This absence of a clear, general formulation is the problem we seek to solve by presenting a theory of informed consent. Our theory has its origin in the microeconomic theory of consumer behavior. The theory supports the information required for informed consent, and it somewhat resolves the conflict between lack of compliance with offered medical treatment and supposed beneficence through subversion of informed consent. The conflict is somewhat resolved by indicating the real interests of patients. Our theory is formal. As a formal theory it provides a way to make predictions about and to explain informed consent events and processes. It is a rigorous account of rational informed consent and as such indicates in abstraction the information that ought to be offered so that a rational patient’s decision may approximate optimal informed consent. We begin by presenting an account of the advantages of a formal theory of informed consent. After showing how a theoretical account can extend current views on informed consent, we present the theory and a hypothetical clinical example to clarify the workings of the theory. We show what our theory does for clinicians by applying it to a case debated in the bioethics literature. We conclude by offering some of the strengths of our theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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