Concubinage and Consent

Normative consent is not consent.

The UK has an opt-in system of consent for postmortem organ donation. More specifically, the Human Tissue Act 2004 prohibits the removal, storage, and use of organs postmortem for a range of ‘‘scheduled purposes’’—which include transplantation—unless ‘‘appropriate consent’’ has been given. Appropriate consent can be given by the donor premortem by signing and carrying a donor card, or by opting...

Consent.

The State Board of Education meeting was held on Thursday, September 18, 2014, in the Grimes State Office Building, State Board Room, Des Moines, Iowa. The following State Board members were present: Charlie Edwards, Mike Knedler, Rosie Hussey, Mike May, Mike Bearden, Diane Crookham-Johnson, Brooke Axiotis, Mary Ellen Miller, Angela English, and Hannah Rens. Iowa Department of Education staff m...

Addiction and consent.

In teaching medical students and residents about substance dependence, I often use the phrase " the addiction takes on a life of its own. " This intuitive expression begins to introduce how the severely addicted person becomes merely the " means " for the substance, how the person is displaced within his own body, how there becomes a fundamental separation within the addicted person who himself...

Consent, Contract and Territory

Consent and informational responsibility.

The notion of "consent" is frequently referred to as "informed consent" to emphasise the informational component of a valid consent. This article considers aspects of that informational component. One misuse of the language of informed consent is highlighted. Attention is then directed to some features of the situation in which consent would not have been offered had certain information been di...