The Juukan Gorge Incident: Key Lessons on Free, Prior and Informed Consent

Research and the (free and) informed consent.

The aim of this article was to reflect about the Free and Informed Consent (IC) in qualitative researches in the health field. Coming from the experience of being part of a CER (Committee for Ethic in Research) in the health area the authoresses place in debate some important questions, exploring them and conducting suggestions. One of these questions and topic of analysis is the meaning of IC,...

Adapting Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) to Local Contexts in REDD+: Lessons from Three Experiments in Vietnam

Free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) is a means of ensuring that people’s rights are respected when reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and enhancing forest carbon stocks (REDD+) projects are established in developing countries. This paper examines how FPIC has been applied in three projects in Vietnam and highlights two key lessons learnt. First, as human rights a...

On nudging and informed consent--four key undefended premises.

On informed consent.

The question of whether patients should influence medical decisions, and if so how much, is not simple. Among other things, it is necessary to decide whether the patient's well-being should take precedence over respect for the patient's autonomy, or vice versa; whether or not the patient has the capacity to exercise true autonomy; what information should be furnished in order to provide the pat...

Factors to consider for informed consent prior to vasectomy reversal.

sperm heads and short tails), a TESE could be performed for the express purposes of cryopreservation. Indeed, in selected patients, discussion of concurrent VR coupled with sperm harvest for IVF could be the preferred option, especially given that costs for sperm harvesting as an isolated procedure can sometimes approach those for a VR.5 Partner’s age is another critical discussion point in pre...