Discretion, Judgment, and Informed Consent: Ethical and Practice Issues in Social Action

Abstract

Through a case study, this article examines some ethical and practice considerations regarding advocacy and social action in an atmosphere of great risk and uncertainty. It considers the use of discretion and the protection and defense of fundamental human rights in the absence of an organized, informed constituency. Informed consent and the client's best interest when neither the individual nor the collective group has much autonomy are examined through a case study describing an attempt to terminate special state investigations of poor people.

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