Abstract
In Pharmaceutical Freedom Professor Flanigan argues we ought to grant people self-medication rights for the same reasons we respect people's right to give (or refuse to give) informed consent to treatment. Despite being the most comprehensive argument in favour of self-medication written to date, Flanigan's Pharmaceutical Freedom leaves a number of questions unanswered, making it unclear how the safe-guards Flanigan incorporates to protect people from harming themselves would work in practice. In this paper, I extend Professor Flanigan's account by discussing a hypothetical case to illustrate how these safe-guards could work together to protect people from harms caused by their own ignorance or incompetence.
Original language | English |
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Journal | HEC Forum |
Early online date | 3 Jun 2020 |
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Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 3 Jun 2020 |
Keywords
- Competence
- Harm reduction
- Pharmaceutical
- Regulation
- Selfmedication