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‘Waiver or Understanding? A Dilemma for Autonomists about Informed Consent’
by Roger Crisp
At a recent New St Cross Ethics seminar, Gopal Sreenivasan, Crown University Distinguished Professor in Ethics at Duke University and currently visitor at Corpus Christi College and the Oxford Uehiro Centre, gave a fascinating lecture on whether valid informed consent requires that the consenter have understood the relevant information about what they are being asked to consent to. Gopal argued that it doesn’t. Continue reading →
Posted in Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Decision Making, Research Ethics, Roger Crisp's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Autonomy, disclosure, healthcare ethics, informed consent
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