What Should We Do with Coerced People?

Full Title: What Should We Do with Coerced People?

Speaker:

Eric Mathison (PhD)

Assistant Professor

University of Toronto Scarborough

Abstract

What should happen if a patient with full decision-making capacity is coerced? It’s widely accepted that voluntariness is required for informed consent, and voluntariness is thwarted when a patient is coerced. In this talk, I survey the options and show that they are all unattractive. I argue that this causes a dilemma: either we must accept one of the unattractive options, or we have to reassess the importance of voluntariness in some cases.

Additional Details:

The event is free and is open to the general public.

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Questions?

Please email Terry Yuen, jcb.ea@utoronto.ca.