Weaponized Beneficence: Decision-Making Capacity Challenges as Instruments of Medical Hegemony

By Omar F. Mirza, Yekaterina Angelova, Marie S. Thearle, Gregg A Robbins-Welty, and Stephanie Cheung Informed consent is part of the bedrock of clinical ethics. Composed of voluntariness, disclosure, and capacity, informed consent is designed to center the patient in their own care amidst an asymmetric power dyad that can easily overpower individual choice. Despite […]

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