期刊
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS
卷 46, 期 5, 页码 300-303出版社
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2019-106009
关键词
informed consent; autonomy
资金
- Wellcome Trust [104848/Z/14/Z.]
- Wellcome Trust [104848/Z/14/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
There is significant controversy over whether patients have a 'right not to know' information relevant to their health. Some arguments for limiting such a right appeal to potential burdens on others that a patient's avoidable ignorance might generate. This paper develops this argument by extending it to cases where refusal of relevant information may generate greater demands on a publicly funded healthcare system. In such cases, patients may have an 'obligation to know'. However, we cannot infer from the fact that a patient has an obligation to know that she does not also have a right not to know. The right not to know is held against medical professionals at a formal institutional level. We have reason to protect patients' control over the information that they receive, even if in individual instances patients exercise this control in ways that violate obligations.
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