INFORMED CONSENT

Gender transition services are ‘reckless’, say medical and legal experts

Michael Cook | 22 August 2021 | Comments

tags: gender issues, informed consent, puberty blockers

Puberty is a little understood phenomenon

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Anorexia patient should not be force-fed, says UK judge

Michael Cook | 13 September 2020 | Comments

tags: anorexia nervosa, burdensome treatment, informed consent

She is mentally competent and can choose her future

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Armenia takes drastic measures to reverse population decline

Michael Cook | 31 May 2020 | Comments

tags: armenia, feminism, fertility, informed consent

Testing 15-year-olds?

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Should a disabled woman be forced to use contraception?

Michael Cook | 26 April 2020 | Comments

tags: informed consent

A British judge has ruled that a woman should be fitted with an IUD

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South African doctors sterilised women without consent

Michael Cook | 29 February 2020 | Comments

tags: forced sterilization, informed consent, south africa

Many women did not give informed consent

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Researchers criticise IVF ‘add-ons’

Xavier Symons | 10 November 2019 | Comments

tags: informed consent, ivf, ivf consent, ivf finance

IVF experts have criticised fertility clinics for marketing expensive additional therapies

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Should patients with anorexia be force fed?

Michael Cook | 29 September 2019 | Comments

tags: anorexia nervosa, informed consent, transgenderism

Yes, says a Hong Kong lawyer

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When love in a marriage is dead…

Michael Cook | 22 September 2019 | Comments

tags: brain death, informed consent

What if your spouse-to-be is brain dead?

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Spain puts prison psychology experiment on hold

Michael Cook | 17 March 2019 | Comments

tags: informed consent, prisoners

Can prisoners give informed consent?

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Memo to hospitals: prison wardens do not own their prisoners

Michael Cook | 17 March 2019 | Comments

tags: end-of-life care, informed consent, prisoners

An Alabama prisoner died after the warden issued a DNR

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Consent not a defence, court tells body modification artist

Michael Cook | 16 February 2019 | Comments

tags: body modification, informed consent

Tongue-splitting is not ‘reasonable’

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‘Ethics dumping’ taints organ transplant research

Michael Cook | 10 February 2019 | Comments

tags: china, informed consent, transplant ethics

Expert demands that 400 papers be retracted

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British hospital turned off life support of new-born without parents’ consent

Michael Cook | 17 November 2018 | Comments

tags: end of life issues, informed consent

Settlement reached after five years of litigation

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13-year-olds given mastectomies at California clinic

Michael Cook | 15 September 2018 | Comments

tags: informed consent, reproductive revolution, transgender

The girls have no regrets, transgender counsellors

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What should a doctor do when a loved one is ill?

Xavier Symons | 19 May 2018 | Comments

tags: clinical ethics, informed consent, professional integrity, professionalism

It's more complicated than just not treating your child.

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British surgeon censured for branding patients’ livers

Michael Cook | 27 January 2018 | Comments

tags: informed consent

"An abuse of power and a betrayal of trust," says judge

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Oxford researchers accused of giving babies unsafe TB drug

Xavier Symons | 16 September 2017 | Comments

tags: deception, informed consent, research ethics, vaccination

Oxford researchers have been accused of deception during a large-scale tuberculosis trial.

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The hidden stories of medical experimentation on Caribbean slave plantations

Londa Schiebinger | 19 August 2017 | Comments

tags: experimentation, history of bioethics, history of medicine, informed consent, slavery

Doctors used slaves to test primitive cures for tropical diseases

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Tennessee judge offers jail credit for sterilization

Michael Cook | 29 July 2017 | Comments

tags: informed consent, sterilizations, tennessee

But an outcry forces him to step back from his plan

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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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