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UK banking on consent
excess of public enthusiasm for the project just became a fatal stampede. The fact of the matter is that the shares in Decode that were traded on the unregulated Icelandic market at that time went to unrealistic heights of over $60, and then collapsed dramatically to the area of well below $6. Even though Decode has reported some scientific progress since that time, including the discovery of g...
متن کاملOn 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...
متن کاملOn children and proxy consent.
The meaning of valid proxy consent for children has recently been the subject of an important debate between Richard McCormick and Paul Ramsey on the ethics of experimenting with children. Ramsey is willing to agree with McCormick that parental consent for a child to undergo some medical procedure is valid only if parents consider what the child would consent to if he could. But beyond this, Ra...
متن کاملNormative consent is not consent.
The UK has an opt-in system of consent for postmortem organ donation. More specifically, the Human Tissue Act 2004 prohibits the removal, storage, and use of organs postmortem for a range of ‘‘scheduled purposes’’—which include transplantation—unless ‘‘appropriate consent’’ has been given. Appropriate consent can be given by the donor premortem by signing and carrying a donor card, or by opting...
متن کاملUpdate on the UK law on consent.
All doctors should be aware of the landmark decision in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board, given by the UK Supreme Court on 11 March 2015. 2 NadineMontgomery was a womanwith diabetes who gave birth by vaginal delivery. Her baby, Sam, was born with serious disabilities after shoulder dystocia during delivery. The doctor, Dina McLellan, did not tell Montgomery of the 9-10% risk of shoulder dy...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Hastings Center Report
سال: 2021
ISSN: 0093-0334
DOI: 10.1002/hast.1237