Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research

• Main Author: Bielby, Phil (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 40
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; Psychiatry.; Medical ethics.; Law > Philosophy.; Law.; Medical laws and legislation.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Medical Law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

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 incompete...

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.