Human and Animal Rights Statement - Informed consent

Informed consent and patients' rights in Japan.

Informed consent, confidentiality, and subject rights in clinical trials.

The informed consent process is designed to inform the subject of the risks, rights, and benefits of participation in a clinical research trial. Informed consent, while not always necessary, is a critical component of ethical research involving human subjects. This article includes an overview of two sets of regulations regarding informed consent found in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) T...

[Human rights and informed consent in clinical practice: beyond the right to health].

Providing medical care is us a complex process that requires a strict respect for human rights. In countries like Peru, despite of having regulations and specific laws, patient's autonomy is not a common currency and certainly paternalism and beneficence generally overrule in physicians decision making. In this type of reality the requirement to health care professionals for respecting fundamen...

preoperative informed consent: is it truly informed?

background: pre-operative informed consent is an important aspect of surgery, yet there has been no formal training regarding it in pakistan. this study was done to assess the preoperative informed consent practice. methods: after taking informed permission, a questionnaire was filled in during an interview with 350 patients, who have undergone elective surgical procedures under routine practic...

Animal rights, animal minds, and human mindreading.

Do non-human animals have rights? The answer to this question depends on whether animals have morally relevant mental properties. Mindreading is the human activity of ascribing mental states to other organisms. Current knowledge about the evolution and cognitive structure of mindreading indicates that human ascriptions of mental states to non-human animals are very inaccurate. The accuracy of h...