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• bdsm community
• sleep deprivation
• sexual acts
• unconscious state
• hippocratic oath
• recency
• human communication
• major surgery
• initiator
• amputation
• intoxication
• survey research
• mental retardation
• subtleties
• mental illness
• judgement
• negotiation
• protests

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Informed Consent, Informed Consent

Impairments to reasoning and judgement which would make it impossible for someone to give informed consent include such factors as severe mental retardation, severe mental illness, intoxication, severe sleep deprivation, Alzheimer's disease, or being in a coma.

However, if a severely injured person is brought to hospital in an unconscious state and no-one is available to give informed consent, doctors will give whatever treatment is necessary to save his life (according to the Hippocratic oath), which might involve major surgery, e.g., amputation.

Consent may be implied within the usual subtleties of human communication, rather than explicitly negotiated verbally or in writing. In some cases consent cannot legally be possible, even if the person protests he does indeed understand and wish. There are also structured instruments for evaluating capacity to give informed consent, although no ideal instrument presently exists.

For example, people who perform sexual acts on sleeping people are not given consent unless the initiator have given prior informed consent to the act within a reasonable recency, and are assumed to be consenting during the act and to not prosecute for it when waking up. This is also an issue in rape fantasy enaction which is often discussed by a "ravishment community" of participants (a subset of the BDSM community) who advocate extensive prior negotiation and planning.

For example in survey research, people need to give informed consent before they participate in the survey.

Source: Wikipedia > Informed Consent