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The right not to know and the obligation to know
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There is significant controversy over whether patients have a ‘right not to know’ information relevant to their health. Some arguments for limiting such a right appeal to potential burdens on others that a patient’s avoidable ignorance might generate. This paper develops this argument by extending it to cases where refusal of relevant information may generate greater demands on a publicly funded healthcare system. In such cases, patients may have an ‘obligation to know’. However, we cannot in...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Medical Ethics Journal website
- Volume:
- 46
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 300-303
- Publication date:
- 2020-05-14
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-01-17
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1473-4257
- ISSN:
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0306-6800
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1097760
- Local pid:
- pubs:1097760
- Deposit date:
- 2020-03-31
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- Copyright holder:
- Davies, B
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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