Now online- a feature article by Yashar Saghai followed by several commentaries for a future special issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics, abstract below:
In recent years, ‘nudge’ theory has gained increasing attention
for the design of population-wide health interventions. The concept of nudge
puts a label on efficacious influences that preserve freedom of choice without
engaging the influencees’ deliberative capacities. Given disagreements over
what it takes genuinely to preserve freedom of choice, the question is whether health
influences relying on automatic cognitive processes may preserve freedom of
choice in a sufficiently robust sense to be serviceable for the moral evaluation
of actions and policies. In this article, I offer an argument to this effect,
explicating preservation of freedom of choice in terms of choice-set
preservation and noncontrol. I also briefly explore the healthcare contexts in
which nudges may have priority over more controlling influences.
Link to the paper: http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/19/medethics-2012-100727.longCommentaries on the paper:
Lying and nudging -
J Med Ethics Published Online First: 2 March 2013 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-101060
J Med Ethics Published Online First: 2 March 2013 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-101061
J Med Ethics Published Online First: 2 March 2013 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-101109
J Med Ethics Published Online First: 2 March 2013 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-101111
J Med Ethics Published Online First: 2 March 2013 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-101110
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