Informed Consent, Proxy Consent, and Catholic Bioethics For the Good of the Subject /

• Main Author: Mazur, O.P., Grzegorz (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 112
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; Medical ethics.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Medical laws and legislation.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Medical Law.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.

This work offers a comprehensive understanding rooted in Catholic anthropology and moral theory of the meaning and limits of informed and proxy consent to experimentation on human subjects. In particular, it seeks to articulate the rationale for proxy consent in both therapeutic and nontherapeutic s...