Consent in Body Donation

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This article explores potential threats to the validity of consent in body donation and potential responses to such threats. To minimize abstractgeneralizations, the article draws particularly onUnited Kingdom regulations but each of the issuesit explores is applicable in many countries. Methods used were searches of relevant (e.g., medicalethical) literatures using pertinent search terms(e.g., consent) and discussions with multiple stakeholders (e.g., family members of body donors).The main threats identified were: (1) failing to adequately acknowledge relatives’ roles in donation,particularly as donation often cannot be completedwithout relatives’ activeparticipation; (2) failing toensure that donors are informed enough to be ableto give valid consent, especially given‘specification’ and ‘temporality’ problems inherentin establishing consent for body donation; and (3)failing to genuinely prioritize donors’ motives andconcerns during and after obtaining their consent..... (full summary in the link given)

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