”The information we get can be harmfull”; Informed consent is not a panacea
May 9, 2016
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Providing information to enable informed choices about healthcare sounds immediately appealing to most of us.
But Minna Johansson, GP trainee and PhD student at the University of Gothenburg, argues that preventive medicine and expanding disease definitions have changed the ethical premises of informed choice and our good intentions may inadvertently advance overmedicalisation.
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Medicine and Science from The BMJ