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    If the only problem with forced care were violation of au... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The problem with forced medical care cannot be simply the violation of autonomy.

    If the only problem with forced care were violation of autonomy, then forcing care on a non-autonomous patient would be permissible, but current informed consent practices forbid it regardless.

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    Forced care(as used in medical ethics)
    Medical treatment or help given to someone against their will, even if it might be good for them.
    Non-autonomous patient(as used in medical ethics)
    A person receiving medical treatment who cannot make their own decisions—for example, someone in a coma, a young child, or someone with severe cognitive disabilities.
    autonomy(Used to ground worker rights to self-governance in the workplace)

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    Related propositions within the same area of thought.
    The right to freely determine one's own actions
    informed consent(Medical ethics and research ethics; the passage argues the requirements within informed consent are not uniform in their necessity.)
    A bundle of distinct requirements governing patient agreement to medical or research interventions, with varying levels of stringency across different contexts.
    permissible(deontic logic / possible worlds semantics)
    A proposition p is permissible if and only if p holds in some i-acceptable world

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    A third challenge is that not all acts that are generally assumed to violate informed consent seem contrary to autonomous decision-making. Suppose that a sufficiently capacitated adult patient refuses a safe, beneficial, and time-sensitive surgery to prevent a moderate disability, due to a simple misunderstanding of medical facts. There is no time to convince him of his mistake. Being uninformed, his decision cannot count as autonomous. But present medical practices surrounding informed consent

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