Informed dissent: a further response

Informed dissent: a new corollary to the informed consent doctrine?

Response To the Dissent by Thomas Chalmers

Chalmers comments that “Hem&i accuses us of assuming that if the volunteers guessed correctly which group they were in that means that they knew, which is obviously not the case.” In the Methods section of Karlowski’s Journal of the American Medical Associarion (JAMA) paper [l] it is stated that “a questionnaire was submitted to each of the participants asking them to guess which substance they...

The Dissent over Dissent Over Descent

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Informed consent process: A step further towards making it meaningful!

Informed consent process is the cornerstone of ethics in clinical research. Obtaining informed consent from patients participating in clinical research is an important legal and ethical imperative for clinical trial researchers. Although informed consent is an important process in clinical research, its effectiveness and validity are always a concern. Issues related to understanding, comprehens...

Informed dissent: the views of some mothers of severely mentally handicapped young adults.

Much of the discussion since the Arthur case has centred round the rights of handicapped infants to medical treatment. Little has centred round the question of how far one person can rightly be required to sacrifice her life for another, when she has not been consulted beforehand. This may be due to the fact that most of the discussants are men, while nearly all the carers are women. This small...