Competence and vulnerability in biomedical research

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Label

Competence and vulnerability in biomedical research

Statement of responsibility

Phil Bielby

Creator

• Bielby, Phil

Subject

• Law -- Philosophy
• Medical ethics
• Psychiatry
• Public health laws
• Ethics

Language

eng

Summary

Enhanced knowledge of the nature and causes of mental disorder have led increasingly to a need for the recruitment of a cognitively vulnerablea (TM) participants in biomedical research. These individuals often fall into the a grey areaa (TM) 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

Member of

• International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine, 40
• Online access with purchase: Springer

Cataloging source

GW5XE

Dewey number

570.72

Index

no index present

LC call number

QH315

LC item number

.B54 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine

Series volume

40