Human Experimentation: Ethics in the Consent Situation

Human Experimentation: Ethics in the Consent Situation

The coupling of the art of healing with the method of scientific investigation for medical research in human beings causes many profound questions to leap into the minds of those whose consciences have been shaped within democratic and religious institutions. Many medical investigators who have carried out research in human subjects have attempted to describe the professional-ethical conditions...

Proxy consent to human experimentation.

The Ethics and Politics of Human Experimentation

Fertility preservation for children treated for cancer (2): ethics of consent for gamete storage and experimentation.

Infertility causes significant psychosocial morbidity by reducing both personal sense of wellbeing (health) and capacity to exercise self determination over reproduction (autonomy). As the primary moral responsibilities of health professionals are restoration of health and respecting patients’ autonomy, it follows that preserving fertility or treating infertility has sound ethical justification...

CLINICAL ETHICS Consent for anaesthesia

‘‘Informed consent’’ is a legal instrument that allows individuals to define their own interests and to protect their bodily privacy. In current medical practice, patients who have consented to surgery are considered to have implied consent to anaesthesia, even though anaesthesia is associated with its own particular set of risks and consequences that are quite separate from those associated wi...