Challenging the Status Quo |
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Authors: | Dominic Wilkinson |
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Institution: | (1) Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, The University of Oxford, Littlegate House, St Ebbes, Oxford, OX1 1PT, UK;(2) The Ethox Centre, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
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Abstract: | Harold Jaffe argues that we should adopt opt-out testing for HIV. There are paternalistic and utilitarian arguments for such
an approach. In this commentary I draw attention to some similarities between his arguments and debates about opt-out systems
of organ donation. I argue that the status quo bias provides both part of the reason that opt-out approaches work, and an
explanation for why such approaches are sometimes resisted.
Dominic Wilkinson is supported by an Oxford Nuffield Medical Fellowship, Eric Burnard Fellowship, and Royal Australasian College
of Physicians Astra-Zeneca Medical Fellowship. The funders had no involvement in this work. |
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Keywords: | Organ transplantation/ethics Ethics medical HIV Tissue and organ procurement/ethics |
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