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Questions on Informed Consent 1. According Faden and Beauchamp, what is the difference between Sense1 and Sense2 of informed consent? Sense1: The informed consent is an autonomous action by a subject made with substantial understanding, in substantial absence of control by others, intentionally, where it authorizes a professional to do a specific intervention. Sense2: Does not refer to autonomous authorization but to a legally or institutionally effective authorization from a patient or a subject. Such authorization is effective because it satisfies the rules and requirements defining a specific institutional practice in healthcare or research.

2. What do they think is the necessary element of true informed consent? Autonomous authorization.

3. What is “decisional capacity” and why is it relevant to discussions of informed consent? 4. What does the court in the Canterbury v. Spence decision say about the appropriateness of “full” disclosure? It says that providing full disclosure to patients is always the appropriate thing to do.

5. What does the court mean by its assertion that “the patient’s right of self-decision shapes the boundaries of the duty to reveal”? disclosure should be judged by what patients themselves deem relevant to their decision, not by what the medical profession thinks is appropriate.

6. What is the rule of disclosure that the court adopts? Courts have mandated the disclosure of several pieces of important information: -The nature of the procedure (test or treatment, invasive? How long?) -The risks of the procedure (involved risks and their seriousness, probability of occurring) -The alternatives to the proposed procedure -The expected benefits of the proposed procedure

7. State two central conditions for “informed consent.”? -The patient is competent to decide -They get an adequate disclosure of information -They understand the information -The decide about the treatment voluntarily -They consent to the treatment...