Voluntary Consent - Theory and Practice

Voluntariness is a necessary condition of valid consent. But determining whether a person consented voluntarily can be difficult, especially when people are subjected to coercion or manipulation, placed in a situation with no acceptable alternative other than to consent to something, or find themselves in an abusive relationship.

List of contents

Part 1: A Novel Account of Voluntary Consent
1. Introduction
2. The History and Definition of Voluntariness and Consent
3. My Proposal: Interpersonal Consenter-Consentee Justification (ICCJ)
Part 2: The Theory of Voluntary Consent
4. Voluntariness and Causation
5. Voluntariness and Morality
6. Voluntariness and Coercion
Part 3: The Practice of Voluntary Consent
7. Nudging and Manipulation
8. Payment in Clinical Trials
9. Living Organ Donation
10. Conclusion

About the author

Maximilian Kiener is a Junior Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, and an Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, UK. He specialises in moral and legal philosophy, with a particular focus on consent, responsibility, and artificial intelligence. He is editor of The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility (2023).

Summary

Voluntariness is a necessary condition of valid consent. But determining whether a person consented voluntarily can be difficult, especially when people are subjected to coercion or manipulation, placed in a situation with no acceptable alternative other than to consent to something, or find themselves in an abusive relationship.

Product details

• Authors: Maximilian Kiener, Maximilian (University of Oxford Kiener
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781032293882
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3229388-2
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Sociology, PHILOSOPHY / General, MEDICAL / Ethics, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law