ON TAYLOR'S JUSTIFICATION OF MEDICAL INFORMED CONSENT

In contemporary Western biomedical ethics, informed consent practices are commonly justified in terms of the intrinsic value of patient autonomy. James Stacey Taylor maintains that this conception of the moral grounding of medical informed consent is mistaken. On the basis of his reasoning to that e...

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Published in:Bioethics
Main Author: Varelius, Jukka (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2012
In: Bioethics
Further subjects:B J.S. Taylor
B medical informed consent
B Patient
B Justification
B Autonomy
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Summary:In contemporary Western biomedical ethics, informed consent practices are commonly justified in terms of the intrinsic value of patient autonomy. James Stacey Taylor maintains that this conception of the moral grounding of medical informed consent is mistaken. On the basis of his reasoning to that effect, Taylor argues that medical informed consent is justified by the instrumental value of personal autonomy. In this article, I examine whether Taylor's justification of medical informed consent is plausible.
ISSN:1467-8519
Contains:Enthalten in: Bioethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2010.01842.x