Informed Consent Under Ignorance. Villiger, D. American Journal of Bioethics, 2024. Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd. Type: Article
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In recent years, an old challenge to informed consent has been rediscovered: the challenge of ignorance. Several authors argue that due to the presence of irreducible ignorance in certain treatments, giving informed consent to these treatments is not possible. The present paper examines in what ways ignorance is believed to prevent informed consent and which treatments are affected by that. At this, it becomes clear that if the challenge of ignorance truly holds, it poses a major problem to informed consent. The paper argues, however, that from both an empirical and a theoretical point of view, it is not convincing that ignorance prevents informed consent. Still, it seems important that the presence of irreducible ignorance is openly discussed during the informed consent process. © 2024 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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	abstract = {In recent years, an old challenge to informed consent has been rediscovered: the challenge of ignorance. Several authors argue that due to the presence of irreducible ignorance in certain treatments, giving informed consent to these treatments is not possible. The present paper examines in what ways ignorance is believed to prevent informed consent and which treatments are affected by that. At this, it becomes clear that if the challenge of ignorance truly holds, it poses a major problem to informed consent. The paper argues, however, that from both an empirical and a theoretical point of view, it is not convincing that ignorance prevents informed consent. Still, it seems important that the presence of irreducible ignorance is openly discussed during the informed consent process. © 2024 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor \& Francis Group, LLC.},
	language = {English},
	journal = {American Journal of Bioethics},
	author = {Villiger, Daniel},
	year = {2024},
	note = {Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Type: Article},
	keywords = {adverse drug reaction, article, clinical article, drug analysis, drug combination, human, informed consent, medical ethics, side effect, therapy},
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