University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
HEC Forum. 2022 Sep;34(3):233-255. doi: 10.1007/s10730-020-09415-7.
In Pharmaceutical Freedom Professor Flanigan argues we ought to grant people self-medication rights for the same reasons we respect people's right to give (or refuse to give) informed consent to treatment. Despite being the most comprehensive argument in favour of self-medication written to date, Flanigan's Pharmaceutical Freedom leaves a number of questions unanswered, making it unclear how the safe-guards Flanigan incorporates to protect people from harming themselves would work in practice. In this paper, I extend Professor Flanigan's account by discussing a hypothetical case to illustrate how these safe-guards could work together to protect people from harms caused by their own ignorance or incompetence.
在《医药自由》一书中，弗拉尼根教授认为，我们应该赋予人们自我用药的权利，原因与我们尊重人们有权（或拒绝）对治疗知情同意一样。尽管这是迄今为止为支持自我用药而撰写的最全面的论点，但弗拉尼根的《医药自由》仍有一些问题没有得到解答，不清楚弗拉尼根为保护人们免受自我伤害而纳入的安全措施在实践中如何运作。在本文中，我通过讨论一个假设案例来扩展弗拉尼根教授的论述，以说明这些安全措施如何共同发挥作用，保护人们免受自身无知或无能造成的伤害。
