Informed dissent

Informed dissent: a new corollary to the informed consent doctrine?

The Dissent over Dissent Over Descent

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Informed dissent: the views of some mothers of severely mentally handicapped young adults.

Much of the discussion since the Arthur case has centred round the rights of handicapped infants to medical treatment. Little has centred round the question of how far one person can rightly be required to sacrifice her life for another, when she has not been consulted beforehand. This may be due to the fact that most of the discussants are men, while nearly all the carers are women. This small...

Informed dissent regarding hypnosis and its not-so-hidden observers: comment on Lynn.

Dr. Lynn reports some second thoughts about an article he published in 1994, in which he described the use of a high hypnotizable/simulator design to study hypnotic dream and hidden observer reports. He found that despite some overlap between highand lowhypnotizable simulators, high hypnotizables reported more primary process material in hypnotic dream reports. He also describes two highly effe...

To Dissent or not to Dissent? Informative Dissent and Parliamentary Governance

Legislative dissent occurs frequently in most parliamentary systems despite its potential detrimental effects on both party and legislator, i.e., legislators depend on their party label for re-election, whose value in turn depends in part on the party’s ability to appear cohesive. Commonly dissent has been attributed to ‘extreme’ preferences. I provide an informational rationale for dissent. Di...