Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research

Enhanced knowledge of the nature and causes of mental disorder have led increasingly to a need for the recruitment of 'cognitively vulnerable' participants in biomedical research. These individuals often fall into the 'grey area' between obvious decisional competence and obvious...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bielby, Philip (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 40
Subjects:
Bioethics.
Ethics.
Medical laws and legislation.
Psychiatry.
Law-Philosophy.
Law-History.
Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
Medical Law.
Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Five Concepts of Competence
  • Consent, Vulnerability and Research
  • Gewirth's Theory of Agency Rights
  • Proportionality, Precaution and Judgments of Competence
  • The Competences of Cognitively Vulnerable Groups
  • Cognitive Vulnerability and Consent to Biomedical Research
  • Cognitive Vulnerability and Consent to Biomedical Research in England and Wales
  • Cognitive Vulnerability and Consent to Biomedical Research in the United States.

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