TY - JOUR AU - Zürcher, Tobias AU - Elger, Bernice AU - Trachsel, Manuel PY - 2019 DA - 2019/05/08 TI - The notion of free will and its ethical relevance for decision-making capacity JO - BMC Medical Ethics SP - 31 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - Obtaining informed consent from patients is a moral and legal duty and, thus, a key legitimation for medical treatment. The pivotal prerequisite for valid informed consent is decision-making capacity of the patient. Related to the question of whether and when consent should be morally and legally valid, there has been a long-lasting philosophical debate about freedom of will and the connection of freedom and responsibility. SN - 1472-6939 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-019-0371-0 DO - 10.1186/s12910-019-0371-0 ID - Zürcher2019 ER -