How to Regulate the Right to Self-Medicate
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How to Regulate the Right to Self-Medicate. / Roberts, Joseph T F.
In: HEC Forum, 03.06.2020.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - How to Regulate the Right to Self-Medicate
AU - Roberts, Joseph T F
PY - 2020/6/3
Y1 - 2020/6/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Competence
KW - Harm reduction
KW - Pharmaceutical
KW - Regulation
KW - Selfmedication
U2 - 10.1007/s10730-020-09415-7
DO - 10.1007/s10730-020-09415-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 32494992
JO - HEC Forum
JF - HEC Forum
SN - 0956-2737
ER -