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    The view that informed consent is necessary solely as a p... — Carmelics
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    The view that informed consent is necessary solely as a preventative bulwark against coercive or fraudulent practices is called into question.

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    • 1.Kant's Formula of Humanity prohibits treating persons merely as means, making consent a deontological requirement independent of whether harm or coercion occurs.
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    • 2.Even benign interventions without consent instrumentalize the subject's body and rational agency, violating autonomy regardless of outcome.
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    • 3.Therefore, the bulwark view's harm-prevention rationale is insufficient because it cannot account for the wrongness of autonomy violations in zero-harm cases.
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    • 1.Faden and Beauchamp's substantial autonomy standard grounds consent in self-governance, not merely harm prevention, making consent valuable as an expression of personhood.
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    • 2.On a self-governance model, waivers for benign studies are permissible precisely because the subject autonomously authorizes the exception, preserving the autonomy-based framework.
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    • 3.The bulwark view cannot explain waiver permissibility coherently, whereas the autonomy-based account explains it without abandoning consent's foundational moral justification.
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    • 1.On the bulwark view, any exception for benign interventions would be impossible because benign interventions would be just as coercive or fraudulent as invasive ones.
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    • 2.It is sometimes correct for benign studies not to require full informed consent.
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    • 3.A theory that entails no exceptions for benign interventions conflicts with this correct practice.
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    Still, some elements of the requirement of informed consent must remain in place, even in standard blood draws and other benign interventions (Dickert et al. forthcoming). Physical duress against a refusing patient and the intentional exploitation of a patient’s ignorance about blood draws both usually remain wrong. This may suggest that informed consent bundles together several requirements with different levels of stringency. Some are necessary in more contexts than others. It may also be thou
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