Journal article
Consent and living organ donation
- Abstract:
- This paper focuses on voluntary consent in the context of living organ donation. Arguing against three dominant views, I claim that voluntariness must not be equated with willingness, that voluntariness does not require the exercise of relational moral agency, and that, in cases of third-party pressure, voluntariness critically depends on the role of the surgeon and the medical team, and not just on the pressure from other people. I therefore argue that an adequate account of voluntary consent cannot understand voluntariness as a purely psychological concept, that it has to be consistent with people pursuing various different conceptions of the good, and that it needs to make the interaction between the person giving consent and the person (or people) receiving consent central to its approach.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, 282.3KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1136/medethics-2020-106570
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- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group
- Journal:
- Journal of Medical Ethics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 47
- Issue:
- 12
- Article number:
- e50
- Publication date:
- 2020-10-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-09-23
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1473-4257
- ISSN:
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0306-6800
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1137065
- Local pid:
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pubs:1137065
- Deposit date:
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2020-10-11
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- Copyright holder:
- Kiener.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from BMJ Publishing at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106570
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