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Free and informed consent is one of the most widespread and morally important practices of modern health care; competence to consent is its cornerstone. In this book, Becky Cox White provides a concise introduction to the key practical, philosophical, and moral issues involved in competence to consent. The goals of informed consent, respect for patient autonomy and provision of beneficent care, cannot be met without a competent patient. Thus determining a patient's competence is the critical first step to informed consent. Determining competence depends on defining it, yet surprisingly, no widely accepted definition of competence exists. White identifies nine capacities that patients must exhibit to be competent. She approaches the problem from the task-oriented nature of decision making and focuses on the problems of defining competence within clinical practice. Her proposed definition is based on understanding competence as occurring in a special rather than a general context; as occurring in degrees rather than at a precise threshold; as independent of consequential appeals; and, as incorporating affective as well as cognitive capacities. Combining both an ethical overview and practical guidelines, this book will be of value to health care professionals, bioethicists, and lawyers. Free and informed consent is one of the most widespread and morally important practices of modern health care; competence to consent is its cornerstone. This book provides an introduction to the key practical, philosophical, and moral issues involved in competence to consent.
Medical ethics. --- Capacity and disability. --- Informed consent (Medical law) --- Consent, Informed --- Consent to treatment --- Disclosure, Medical --- Medical disclosure --- Treatment, Consent to --- Consent (Law) --- Medical ethics --- Medical personnel --- Patient education --- Involuntary treatment --- Patient refusal of treatment --- Capacity (Law) --- Capacity and disability --- Disability (Legal incapacity) --- Incapacity (Law) --- Status (Law) --- Biomedical ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Malpractice --- Law and legislation --- Moral and ethical aspects --- autonomie van de patiënt --- geïnformeerde vrijwillige toestemming (instemming) --- gezondheidszorg --- wilsbekwaamheid (wilsbekwame patiënten) --- autonomie du patient --- consentement libre et éclairé --- soins de santé --- capacité
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