Health care in a multicultural Canada: the ethics of informed consent and the duty to warn of hereditary risk

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dc.contributor.authorDheri, Poonam
dc.contributor.supervisorKluge, Eike-Henner W.
dc.contributor.supervisorArbour, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-24T14:37:12Z
dc.date.available2016-08-24T14:37:12Z
dc.date.copyright2016en_US
dc.date.issued2016-08-24
dc.degree.departmentInterdisciplinary Graduate Programen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractDifferent people can have different cultural interpretations of the person—atomic versus embedded—and these may affect health care decision-making. This study examines both the ethics of variations in personhood as well as their implications for the doctrine of informed consent and the duty to warn of genetic disease risk. It argues that variations in personhood are consistent with the ethics of the Principle of Autonomy and the Canadian stand on informed consent, though autonomy and consent play out differently in practice on the two models. Also as a result of different interpretations of the person, the duty to warn of hereditary risk is found to be relevant to the atomic conception but unnecessary among embedded individuals.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0422en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0566en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0326en_US
dc.description.proquestemailpkdheri@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/7466
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectpersonhood, autonomy, medical decision-making, informed consent, duty to warn, geneticsen_US
dc.titleHealth care in a multicultural Canada: the ethics of informed consent and the duty to warn of hereditary risken_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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