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.