COVID and consent

CoViD, A System for Collaborative Virtual 3D Design

Many important decisions in the design process are made fairly early on, after designers have presented initial concepts. In many domains, these concepts are now realized as 3D digital models and, in meetings, the stakeholders evaluate these potential solutions. Frequently, the participants in such a meeting want to interactively modify the proposed designs to explore the design space better. T...

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