Beschreibung:
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 decisional incompetence and, as a result, may not be recognised as having the legal capacity to make such decisions themselves. At the core of the ethical debate surrounding the participation of cognitively vulnerable individuals in research is when, if at all, we should judge them decisionally and legally competent to consent to or refuse research participation on their own behalf and when they should be judged incompetent in this respect.
Only book currently available to focus exclusively upon competence to consent to biomedical research
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.