Question

Faden and Beauchamp distinguish two senses of informed consent. In six to eight lines, identify the two senses and explain the relationship between the senses according to these authors.

Answer 1

Faden and Beauchamp's authors create the difference between two different informed consent concept.
-There are two senses of informed consent called autonomous authorization and effective consent.
-Autonomous authorization is an action by the patient or subject that medical professional makes medical plans for the patient. Informed consent is given by the patient with complete understanding, intentionally and deals with institutional rules of consent. it is a legally effective authorization.
-Effective consent as a policy practice for informed consent that authorization from the patient in an effective sense of informed consent obtained through the procedure. It has rules and regulations for particular practices in healthcare. It has legal fiction. It presupposes the autonomous authorization.
-Autonomous authorization respect patient autonomy and has genuine task.
-Effective consent is a legal one and it is a  valid consent and refusals.
-Autonomous authorization example: When the surgeon obtains consent for doing the procedure in the right eye, during the procedure surgeon recoginze there is an urgent need to do some procedure with the left eye. autonomous authorization provided consent by the patient to extend the procedure if needed that allows the professional to perform the procedure with left eye.
Effective consent example when alcohol consumption and sexual act extent against the policy without effective consent it will be considered as sexual assault and illegal act.