The editorial in the September 1982 issue of this journal and many articles before and since have addressed the problem of informed consent. Is it possible? Is it a useful concept? Is there anything new to be said about it? In this article the basic rationale of the rule (patient autonomy) is explained and the extent of the rule explored. Various exceptions have been offered by the law and an a...

The author concurs with Bola's conclusion that "a categorical prohibition of medication-free research in early episode schizophrenia on the ethical grounds of harm to human subjects should probably be reconsidered" on a case-by-case basis. The point that informed choice is rarely considered in the informed consent process is made. Several recommendations are made on how to augment the informed ...

The Article raises questions concerning the validity of the age of eighteen years as the youngest age allowing independent consent of a minor in Israel to his or her medical treatment. One of the primary suggestions in the Article is that there is a need to apply the informed consent doctrine to the medical treatment of Israeli and other minors who possess the appropriate capacities deemed nece...

The consent form is a document recommended for international declarations, resolutions and specific laws currently used in research on health. The practice or the accomplishment of the informed consent in the exercise of the medicine and the research in human beings is pertains to the last decades and characterizes the perfectioning of biomedical ethics, constitutes a legal and ethical requirem...

A complete defense of deceptive placebo use must address this ethical objection: deceptive placebo use violates patient autonomy, because deceiving a patient about the placebo nature of a proposed treatment prevents her from giving informed consent to the treatment. Unfortunately, this objection isn't always recognized and clearly disambiguated from other ethical concerns. I consider how well s...

The contemporary changes in the Hippocratic ethical tradition are parallel to the changes in the values of the Western world. The medical ethics view accepted by Anglo-America has been becoming dominant throughout the world. The reason for this, no doubt, is the scientific, technological and economical superiority of the Western world. Nevertheless there are various kinds of philosophical and r...

The influence of law on the orthodontic profession has greatly increased in the last few decades. Dental law has emerged today as a full-fedged specialty dealing with a variety of areas, like professional negligence, doctor-patient contracts, consumer protection laws, ethics, general and special health legislations and practice regulatory mechanisms. This article highlights the concept of infor...

Although a relatively recent phenomenon, the role of informed consent in human research is central to its ethical regulation and conduct. However, guidelines often recommend procedures for obtaining informed consent (usually written consent) that are difficult to implement in developing countries. This paper reviews the guidelines for obtaining informed consent and also discusses prevailing vie...

Traditional disciplinary guidelines are inadequate to address some of the ethical dilemmas that emerge when conducting research on violence against women and girls. This article is organized according to the ethical principles of respect for persons, privacy and confidentiality, justice, beneficence, and nonmaleficence. In the article, I describe dilemmas involved in cross-cultural research, re...

Participants are often not informed by investigators who conduct randomised, placebo-controlled acupuncture trials that they may receive a sham acupuncture intervention. Instead, they are told that one or more forms of acupuncture are being compared in the study. This deceptive disclosure practice lacks a compelling methodological rationale and violates the ethical requirement to obtain informe...