Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2008. |
| Series: | International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8604-5 |
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.