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The use of elective egg freezing (EEF) has rapidly increased in recent years. Despite its popularity, scholars have documented a host of concerns in relation to the use of this technology, especially given aggressive advertising of EEF by the fertility industry as "insurance" and lack of data about success rates. Informed consent processes, and informed consent documents, are particularly important in situations, like EEF, where healthy people are undergoing interventions that are neither life nor health preserving. They are also crucial to ensure that people considering EEF are provided with direct unbiased information about the risks of engaging. In this paper, we build on the existing literature that has examined the unique concerns associated with EEF and crucial elements of consent for egg freezing, as well as similar interventions. Drawing from these sources, and focusing on the Canadian context, we identify seven elements that, at minimum, should be contained in consent documents for EEF to meet ethical standards of disclosure.
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Journal of Medical Humanities publishes original papers that reflect its enlarged focus on interdisciplinary inquiry in medicine and medical education. Such inquiry can emerge in the following ways: (1) from the medical humanities, which includes literature, history, philosophy, and bioethics as well as those areas of the social and behavioral sciences that have strong humanistic traditions; (2) from cultural studies, a multidisciplinary activity involving the humanities; women''s, African-American, and other critical studies; media studies and popular culture; and sociology and anthropology, which can be used to examine medical institutions, practice and education with a special focus on relations of power; and (3) from pedagogical perspectives that elucidate what and how knowledge is made and valued in medicine, how that knowledge is expressed and transmitted, and the ideological basis of medical education.
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