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Patient Autonomy and Informed Consent in Critically Ill A

Introduction: Patient autonomy has been a cornerstone of contemporary clinical ethics since the Nuremberg trial, especially in American school of bioethics. Topic: Patient autonomy has been defi ned in the Nuremberg Code, and re-defi ned in the Declaration of Helsinki, Belmont Report and Barcelona Declaration. Founders and followers of the rights-oriented bioethics (for example, Hellegers, Beau...

Informed consent without autonomy.

This Essay explains why and how the Roman Catholic basis for informed consent is different from the secular basis. It argues that the Catholic basis, which is rooted in “natural law,” is the better model for society to adopt. The author explains that the secular view is rooted in the belief that patient autonomy must never be violated but the Catholic view is based on human dignity, which simpl...

Patient's autonomy and informed consent

The present paper it is a literature review dealing with the concepts of patient's autonomy and informed consent focussing on how these concepts interrelate with themselves and on how health professionals should handle these concepts. Recipients of health care have specific rights with regard to its delivery. Within this context the providers of health care, should also be knowledgeable of and ...

Protecting patient-doctor discourse: informed consent and deliberative autonomy.

The spring and summer of 1999 once again saw the national political debate turn to issues about health care financing and administration. Political pundits noted that health care is a steady voter concern and that the mostly partisan debate had important political significance for next year's congressional campaigns. [FN1] Largely at issue were the rights and relations patients/consumers would ...

Patient autonomy in the age of consumer-driven health care: informed consent and informed choice.