The limits of consent : a socio-ethical approach to human subject research in medicine / edited by Oonagh Corrigan ... [et al.].

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Corrigan, Oonagh, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Human experimentation in medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.
• Informed consent (Medical law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Informed consent developed as an international principle to protect the welfare of patients and volunteers taking part in medical research. This book examines the inadequacies of consent for contemporary biomedical research, including perspectives from medicine, law, philosophy and sociology.

Contents:

• Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Informed consent in medical research - a procedure stretched beyond breaking point?; 2 Trust and exploitation in clinical research; 3 Consent and private liability in clinical research; 4 The decision to decline to enrol in a clinical trial: a blind spot in the literature on decision-making for research participation; 5 Beyond a rebarbative commitment to consent; 6 The normative status of the requirement to gain an informed consent in clinical trials: comprehension, obligations, and empirical evidence
• 7 Is there an obligation to participate in medical research?8 Consenting older adults: research as a virtuous relationship; 9 Towards supported decision-making in biomedical research with cognitively vulnerable adults; 10 Is consent sufficient? A case study of qualitative research with men with intellectual disabilities; 11 Consent to genetic testing: a family affair?; 12 Cultural authority of informed consent: indigenous participation in biobanking and salmon genomics focus groups; Consent and beyond: some conclusions; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
• X

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

• 0-19-155239-9
• 9786613892409
• 1-283-57995-2

OCLC:

508483867