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False Hopes, Informed Consent

Voices in Bioethics, 2013
In America, with our closely held values of optimism and perseverance, we are very often loath to confront death and dying; cancer patients are told to fight, to hold on to a positive attitude, to nurture faith and hope.
Jennifer Cable
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Being informed: the complexities of knowledge, deception and consent when transmitting HIV [PDF]

, 2010
The offence of inflicting grievous bodily harm under s. 20 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 has been confirmed as the most appropriate ground for convicting a reckless transmission of the HIV virus through sexual intercourse.1 An informed ...
Cherkassky, Lisa
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Automated informed consent

Big Data & Society
Online privacy policies or terms and conditions ideally provide users with information about how their personal data are being used. The reality is that very few users read them: they are long, often hard to understand, and ubiquitous.
Adam John Andreotta, Björn Lundgren
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Informed consent in clinical trials

South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, 2022
Background. Informed consent (IC) is not only a regulatory but also an ethical requirement to participate in any clinical trial. It is essential to determine that research participants understand what they consent to.
G P Kovane, V C Nikoderm, O Khondowe
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An Empirical Analysis of the Medical Informed Consent Doctrine: Search for a Standard of Disclosure [PDF]

, 1991
Informed consent and its conceptual equivalents, e.g., right-to-know, are increasingly important. The author discusses the development of the informed consent doctrine in tort cases and attempts to evaluate the consistency of its application.
Merz, Jon F.
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Informed consent and the transmission of sexual disease: Dadson Revivified [PDF]

, 2007
This article examines the impact of the decisions in R v Dica (2004) and R v Konzani (2005) on the extent of the defence of consent. As well as analysing the impact of the decisions on the extent of the defence where a defendant faces criminal liability ...
Cooper, S, Reed, A
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Informed consent, or, consent on a form : an ethical or legal dilemma? : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Social Anthropology at Massey University [PDF]

, 2003
Informed consent is a worthwhile concept but in my view it does not work within the hospital institution in New Zealand. Why? • Because the continued emphasis in theory and in practice is still on consent rather than choice and so the focus of the ...
Casey, Lucy
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"I understood…but some parts were confusing and hard to grasp": Patients′ perception of informed consent forms and clinical trials in Eldoret, Kenya

Perspectives in Clinical Research, 2014
Background: A signed informed consent (IC) form proves voluntary participation in a study. Yet the development of accessible and understandable IC forms comes with its own set of challenges, particularly when conducting international research.
Violet Naanyu, Fatma F Some, Abraham M Siika   +2 more
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Informed consent to HIV cure research [PDF]

, 2017
Trials with highly unfavourable risk–benefit ratios for participants, like HIV cure trials, raise questions about the quality of the consent of research participants.
Bromwich, Danielle, Millum, Joseph R.
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INFORMED CONSENT DALAM PELAYANAN KESEHATAN

Al-Ihkam: Jurnal Hukum dan Pranata Sosial, 2012
:   It is a must to apply the informed consent in public health service, particularly in a hosptal. As a matter of fact, some medical patients or the  representative does not comprehend the term informed consent due to the ineffective communication ...
Adriana Pakendek Adriana Pakendek
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