INFORMED CONSENT

Is it ethical to refuse a patient surgery for body art?

Michael Cook | 04 March 2017 | Comments

tags: body art, conscientious objection, informed consent

An ethicist argues that conscientious objection is not morally acceptable.

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Trust me, I’m a doctor

Michael Cook | 04 March 2017 | Comments

tags: informed consent

Is trust morally inferior to belief on evidence?

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California prepares for assisted suicide of patients in mental hospitals

Michael Cook | 20 November 2016 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, california, informed consent

Regulations to new law could allow suicidal patients to commit suicide

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A landmark case transforms informed consent in the UK

Michael Cook | 12 November 2016 | Comments

tags: abortion, informed consent, uk

Shift from the 'reasonable doctor' to the 'reasonable patient'

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Power to the patient: new UK consent regulations

Xavier Symons | 29 October 2016 | Comments

tags: clinical ethics, informed consent, negligence, uk

The Royal College of Surgeons has tightened its guidelines on informed consent procedures.

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How carefully do we give consent?

Michael Cook | 03 September 2016 | Comments

tags: informed consent, internet, privacy

No one ever reads terms of service contracts

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Untested stem cell treatments in Australia

Xavier Symons | 12 August 2016 | Comments

tags: australia, clinical ethics, informed consent, stem cells

Australia has seen a sharp rise in the use of unproven stem cell treatments.

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Medical paternalism lives on in China

Michael Cook | 12 August 2016 | Comments

tags: china, informed consent, medical paternalism

The case of the accidental haemorrhoid operation.

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Bioethicists clash over death of 5-year-old

Xavier Symons | 18 June 2016 | Comments

tags: informed consent

Can a child ask for withdrawal of treatment?

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A surprising ethical conversion

Michael Cook | 18 June 2016 | Comments

tags: Henry K. Beecher, informed consent, medical ethics, Nuremberg Code

A pioneer in modern medical ethics broke some of the rules

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Hackers download OkCupid data without consent

Michael Cook | 14 May 2016 | Comments

tags: informed consent, internet, privacy, research ethics

Danish researchers post information on 70,000 people

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Treatment disagreement gets ugly in Western Australia

Xavier Symons | 16 April 2016 | Comments

tags: Australia, clinical ethics, informed consent

A Perth hospital has obtained a court order to force chemotherapy on the child.

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Are minors capable of informed consent?

Xavier Symons | 02 April 2016 | Comments

tags: consent, informed consent, law, UK

Two UK doctors have called for a sweeping review of adolescent consent protocols.

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Doing the right thing by transgender kids is not easy

Michael Cook | 02 April 2016 | Comments

tags: informed consent, transgender children

A US$5.7 million study begins soon amidst ethical uncertainties

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Donor anonymity legislation – a moral quagmire

Xavier Symons | 19 March 2016 | Comments

tags: Australia, donor anonymity, informed consent, law, Victoria

Ethicists and doctors have slammed recently passed legislation in the Australian state of Victoria that will revoke the anonymity of sperm donors.

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Would Jenner’s smallpox experiment pass a research ethics committee?

Andrew George | 20 February 2016 | Comments

tags: clinical ethics, clinical trials, history of bioethics, history of medicine, informed consent

A single vulnerable subject exposed to a dread disease without animal trials -- it's not sounding good

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‘No Mas Bebes’

Xavier Symons | 30 January 2016 | Comments

tags: forced sterilization, informed consent, sterilization, US

A new documentary tells the story of several mexican women who in the late 1960s and early 1970s were sterilized in US hospitals.

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The socialite and her dialysis machine

Michael Cook | 12 December 2015 | Comments

tags: human drama, informed consent, refusal of treatment

Is 'life's not much fun any more' good enough reason to refuse treatment?

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Concerns over proposed changes to consent in US research

Xavier Symons | 27 November 2015 | Comments

tags: informed consent

The HHS is suggesting changes in the use of biospecimens, supervision of multicentre studies, and ethics oversight for trials not involving invasive interventions.

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Delusional but autonomous

Michael Cook | 07 November 2015 | Comments

tags: autonomy, informed consent, mental illness, UK

A British man chooses to die rather than lose his leg.

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