ArticleJournal of medical ethics2024
Green bioethics, patient autonomy and informed consent in healthcare.
Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Patients' perspectives on ecologically sustainable health care in general practice: an experimental vignette and questionnaire study.BJGP open · 2025Article
- Ecological preferences and patient autonomy.Journal of medical ethics · 2025Article
- Establishing and Defining an Approach to Climate Conscious Clinical Medical Ethics.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · 2025Article
- Patients' Attitudes Towards Integrating Environmental Sustainability Into Healthcare Decision-Making: An Interview Study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- Patient autonomy in the era of the sustainability crisis.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2024Article
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Abstract
Green bioethics is an area of research and scholarship that examines the impact of healthcare practices and policies on the environment and emphasises environmental values, such as ecological sustainability and stewardship. Some green bioethicists have argued that healthcare providers should inform patients about the environmental impacts of treatments and advocate for options that minimise adverse impacts. While disclosure of information pertaining to the environmental impacts of treatments could facilitate autonomous decision-making and strengthen the patient-provider relationship in situations where patients have clearly expressed environmental concerns, it may have the opposite effect in other situations if makes patients feel like they are being judged or manipulated. We argue, therefore, that there is not a generalisable duty to disclose environmental impact information to all patients during the consent process. Providers who practice green bioethics should focus on advocating for system-level changes in healthcare financing, organisation and delivery and use discretion when bringing up environmental concerns in their encounters with patients.
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