How Informed is Informed Refusal

The University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB) has been a global leader in bioethics for over 20 years. We are an Ethics Observatory dedicated to addressing complex ethical issues of contemporary health systems through bioethics research, education and practice in partnership with other academic and health sector institutions. At the JCB, we put theory into practice.

University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics

We try to explain why valid refusal requires less information than valid consent through an asymmetry between positive and negative rights.

JCB Bioethics Seminar Series

A free weekly seminar on a wide variety of bioethics topics with speakers come from the local, national and international community in bioethics. These seminars are open to the public and we encourage anyone to attend.

Full Title: How Informed is Informed Refusal?S﻿peakers: Nathan Robert Howard (PhD)Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Toronto ScarboroughEric Mathison (PhD)Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Toronto ScarboroughAbstractValid consent in medical practice requires that the patient is relevantly informed. The degree and kind of information required by valid consent are both disputed, but it is widely agreed that this requirement is non-trivial. Since consent and refusal are opposed yet closely related concepts, it is tempting to think that valid refusal also requires meeting some non-trivial informational threshold. Indeed, it is now common to encounter the term 'informed refusal' alongside 'informed consent'. We argue that valid refusal does not require meeting some informational threshold and explain the informational asymmetry between valid refusal and valid consent by appealing to an asymmetry between positive and negative rights.Additional Details:The event is free and is open to the general public. The direct link to the seminar will be sent out to registered participants 2 hours before the event. The JCB Bioethics Seminars are now being live-streamed to our <a href="https://youtube.com/channel/UCV1FanK51llV351jZq5K-gA" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">YouTube channel</a>. If you don't receive the link 2 hours before the event, please head over there and click on the live stream. Subscribe to our channel to receive notices of upcoming events.Questions? Please email Terry Yuen, jcb.ea@utoronto.ca.

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