Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (745 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00QIT3P6S |
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| Number of Pages | : | 167 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics, first published in 2007, Neil Manson and Onora O'Neill set debates about informed consent in medicine and research in a fresh light. Their book offers a coherent, wide-ranging and practical account of the role of consent in biomedicine which will be valuable to readers working in a range of areas in bioethics, medicine and law.. Yet attempts to set defensible and feasible standards for consenting have led to persistent difficulties. Informed consent is a central topic in contemporary biomedical ethics. They argue that consent needs distinctive communicative transactions, by which other obligations, prohibitions, and rights can be waived or set aside in controlled and specific ways. They show why informed consent cannot be fully specific or fully explicit, and why more specific consent is not always ethically better
Very Good Critique R. Albin This is a very good critique of the rationale for and present practice of using informed consent in research and clinical practice. To some extent, this book is a sequel to O'Neill's prior work on bioethics. In her Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics, O'Neill presented a very effective critique of the reliance on the concept of autonomy and the nature of the concept of autonomy used in clinical and research ethics. O'Neill argued well that the reliance on the principle of autonomy was poorly formulated and contributed to erosion of trust. In the present book, O'Neill and Manson provide an ef. Rethinking Graham J. Sharpe This book gives insight onto a complex issue - that of informed consent. As a physician myself I found this a stimulating and thought provoking read. I intend to read it again soon - more slowly and deliberately. It will be worth the time and effort. All medical students and doctors training to be specialists should read this book (and also Oona O'Neill's earlier book "A Question of Trust".
It will not turn back that tide on its own, but it represents a compelling and very forcefully-argued move against it. It deserves above all to reach the attention of policy-makers who for too long have drifted with the tide, and who have allowed a simple idea -- that informed consent can protect patients and research subjects -- to grow unchecked, and sprawl, and collapse under its own unsustainable weight." - Metapsychology Online Reviews . "This is an ambitious and timely book, one that is up to the job of defying a tide of opinion and practice
. Neil C. Her most recent publications include A Question of Trust: The BBC Reith Lectures 2002 (2002) and Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics (2002). Manson is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Lancaster University.Onora O'Neill is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge