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You could make informed consent for donating a body similar to informed consent for a medical procedure. As the medical expert, part of obtaining informed conse
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You could make informed consent for donating a body similar to informed consent for a medical procedure. As the medical expert, part of obtaining informed consent involves assessing “the patient’s ability to understand relevant medical information and the implications of treatment alternatives and to make an independent, voluntary decision” [1]. You are acting as if there has to be some magic universal understanding shared among all people, when that isn’t the case. We can have a system where the expert must make a genuine attempt to explain what is happening, and assess if the layperson understands, and hold them accountable for ethics violations if they don’t. in situations with a large power or information imbalance between two parties, we don’t just have to pretend they are on equal footing and are equally accountable.
[1] https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/informed-consent https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/informed-con...