Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research
In this book, the author develops a novel justificatory framework for making judgments of decisional competence to consent to biomedical research with reference to five groups of cognitively vulnerable individuals - older children and adolescents, adults with intellectual disabilities, adults with d...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2008, 2008
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2008 |
| Series: | International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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