Voluntary Consent

Theory and Practice

Maximilian Kiener (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

198 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-29389-9 (ISBN)

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Voluntariness is a necessary condition of valid consent. But determining whether a person consented voluntarily can be difficult, especially when people are subjected to coercion or manipulation, placed in a situation with no acceptable alternative other than to consent to something, or find themselves in an abusive relationship.

This book presents a novel view on the voluntariness of consent, especially medical consent, which the author calls Interpersonal Consenter-Consentee Justification (ICCJ). According to this view, consent is voluntary if and only if the process by which it has been obtained aligns with specific principles of interpersonal justification. ICCJ is distinctive because it explains voluntary consent neither as a ‘psychological’ concept indicative of the inner states of a person’s mind (e.g. willingness or reluctance) nor as a ‘circumstantial’ concept indicative of a person’s set of options. Rather, ICCJ explains the voluntariness of consent as an ‘interpersonal’ concept focusing on the interaction between the person giving consent and the person receiving it and requiring the absence of illegitimate control by the consent-receiver. In so doing, ICCJ further develops the notion of interpersonal justification, known from contractualist theories in moral philosophy, and introduces it to the debate on consent. The author employs a top-down approach, defending ICCJ’s key characteristics on the basis of general theoretical arguments, as well as a bottom-up approach, supporting ICCJ in its application to clinical challenges such as nudging and manipulation, living organ donation, and clinical trials.

Voluntary Consent will appeal to researchers and advanced students in normative ethics, bioethics, philosophy of law, behavioural psychology, and medicine.

Maximilian Kiener is a Junior Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, and an Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, UK. He specialises in moral and legal philosophy, with a particular focus on consent, responsibility, and artificial intelligence. He is editor of The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility (2023).

Part 1: A Novel Account of Voluntary Consent

1. Introduction

2. The History and Definition of Voluntariness and Consent

3. My Proposal: Interpersonal Consenter-Consentee Justification (ICCJ)

Part 2: The Theory of Voluntary Consent

4. Voluntariness and Causation

5. Voluntariness and Morality

6. Voluntariness and Coercion

Part 3: The Practice of Voluntary Consent

7. Nudging and Manipulation

8. Payment in Clinical Trials

9. Living Organ Donation

10. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	17.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Annals of Bioethics
Zusatzinfo	1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	385 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-032-29389-6 / 1032293896
ISBN-13	978-1-032-29389-9 / 9781032293899
Zustand	Neuware