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Voluntary Consent: Why a Value-Neutral Concept Won't Work

Author(s) -

Albert I. Wertheimer

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

the journal of medicine and philosophy a forum for bioethics and philosophy of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.328

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 1744-5019

pISSN - 0360-5310

DOI - 10.1093/jmp/jhs016

Subject(s) - voluntariness , value (mathematics) , informed consent , work (physics) , subject (documents) , psychology , social psychology , epistemology , law , political science , philosophy , medicine , computer science , alternative medicine , engineering , mechanical engineering , pathology , machine learning , library science

Some maintain that voluntariness is a value-neutral concept. On that view, someone acts involuntarily if subject to a controlling influence or has no acceptable alternatives. I argue that a value-neutral conception of voluntariness cannot explain when and why consent is invalid and that we need a moralized account of voluntariness. On that view, most concerns about the voluntariness of consent to participate in research are not well founded.

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