Abstract

The question of decision-making capacity for informed consent to experimental brain surgery for severely ill anorectic patients is about as dramatic an ethical issue one can imagine. Sabine Müller and her co-authors (2015) should be commended for this extremely timely and original clinical and ethical discussion of decision-making capacity in relation to the issues raised by informed consent to such therapies. It is not only the therapies themselves that are innovative in this discussion, but also the overall theoretical approach taken to decision-making capacity and informed consent. Even the understanding of anorexia nervosa is novel. The ethical stakes are certainly very high, since by some measures this is the deadliest off all mental disorders...