书目名称 | Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research |
编辑 | Phil Bielby |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/232/231107/231107.mp4 |
概述 | Only book currently available to focus exclusively upon competence to consent to biomedical research.Develops a novel theory of judging decisional competence.Provides an argument for supported decisio |
丛书名称 | International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine |
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描述 | .Enhanced knowledge of the nature and causes of mental disorder have led increasingly to a need for the recruitment of ‘cognitively vulnerable’ participants in biomedical research. These individuals often fall into the ‘grey area’ between obvious decisional competence and obvious decisional incompetence and, as a result, may not be recognised as having the legal capacity to make such decisions themselves. At the core of the ethical debate surrounding the participation of cognitively vulnerable individuals in research is when, if at all, we should judge them decisionally and legally competent to consent to or refuse research participation on their own behalf and when they should be judged incompetent in this respect...In this book, the author develops a novel justificatory framework for making judgments of decisional competence to consent to biomedical research with reference to five groups of cognitively vulnerable individuals - older children and adolescents, adults with intellectual disabilities, adults with depression, adults with schizophrenia and adults with dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. Using this framework, the author argues that we can make morally defensible jud |
出版日期 | Book 2008 |
关键词 | Biomedical research; Competence to consent; Depression; Ethics; John Rawls; Legal capacity; Supported deci |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8604-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-7931-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-8604-5Series ISSN 1567-8008 Series E-ISSN 2351-955X |
issn_series | 1567-8008 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 |