Alzheimer’s Dementia Dilemmas in Clinical Research
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has historically been concerned with the protection of human subjects. In July 1977, the NIA sponsored a meeting to update and supplement guide lines for protecting those participating in Federal research pro jects. Although the basic guidelines had been in ef...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Totowa, NJ
Humana
1985, 1985
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1985 |
| Series: | Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Legal and Science Background
- Current Frontiers in Research on Alzheimer’s Disease
- Current Regulations for the Protection of Human Subjects
- Clinical Symptoms Accompanying Progressive Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer’s Disease: Relationship to “Denial” and Ability to Give Informed Consent
- The Physician-Researcher: Role Conflicts
- 2 Personal Perspectives
- Impact of Alzheimers Disease and the Role of the Patient’s Family
- Advocacy for Persons with Senile Dementia
- Ethical Issues in the Care of the Patient Involved in Alzheimer’s Disease Research
- 3 Historical, Legal, and Ethical Background
- Research Objectives and the Social Structuring of the Research Enterprise: An Historical and Ethical Perspective
- Research on Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type: Ethical Issues Involving Informed Consent
- An Alternative Approach to Informed Consent in Research with Vulnerable Patients
- Technical Aspects of Obtaining Informed Consent from Persons with Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type
- 4 Institutional Issues
- The Need for Alternatives to Informed Consent by Older Patients: Psychological and Physical Aspects of the Institutionalized Elderly
- Legal Issues in Research on Institutionalized Demented Patients
- Issues of Equity in the Selection of Subjects for Experimental Research on Senile Dementia of the Alzheimers Type
- 5 Competency to Give Consent
- Competency to Consent to Research
- Assuring Adequate Consent: Special Considerations in Patients of Uncertain Competence
- Assessment of Competence to Give Informed Consent
- 6 Proxy and Derived Consent
- Autonomy and Proxy Consent
- Derived Consent, Proxy Consent: Legal Issues
- Clinical Research in Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type: Suggested Guidelines Addressing the Ethical and LegalIssues