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Informed Consent as a Human Right in the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS). [PDF]

open access: yesDev World Bioeth
ABSTRACT Informed consent is presented as a fundamental right and principle in modern medical practice. It involves obtaining permission from a patient before any medical procedure, treatment, or research protocol. Although not explicitly recognized as a standalone right in international human rights instruments, informed consent in healthcare is ...
Bernal-Camargo DR, Gómez-Córdoba AI.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The landmark Escazú Agreement: An opportunity to integrate democracy, human rights, and transboundary conservation

open access: yesConservation Letters, Volume 15, Issue 1, January/February 2022., 2022
Abstract Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is one of the world's most biodiverse regions, but this diversity is threatened by the overexploitation of natural resources and internal social conflicts. In 2018, 33 LAC countries were invited to sign and ratify the landmark Escazú Agreement, which is the first legally binding environmental agreement to ...
Sofía López‐Cubillos   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Death Penalty and Historical Change in Spain

open access: yesJournal of Historical Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 305-322, June 2021., 2021
Abstract This article studies the long duration of the death penalty in Spain until its abolition in the Constitution of 1978. After analysing the plurality of theoretical approaches and possibilities offered by archival sources and specialised historiography (particularly those produced by specialists in the history of law and social history), I ...
Pedro Oliver Olmo
wiley   +1 more source

Achieving good‐quality consent: review of literature, case law and guidance

open access: yesBJS Open, Volume 4, Issue 5, Page 757-763, October 2020., 2020
This review aimed to identify processes and measures that warrant consideration when engaging in consent‐based discussions with competent patients undergoing elective procedures. A strategy for shared decision‐making Background Informed consent is an integral part of clinical practice.
P. Normahani   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Charters for Choice: Abortion Travel, Abortion Referral Networks and Spanish Women's Transnational Reproductive Agency, 1975–1985

open access: yes, 2020
Gender &History, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 286-303, July 2020.
Agata Ignaciuk, Christabelle Sethna
wiley   +1 more source

Legal perspectives on black box recording devices in the operating environment

open access: yesBJS (British Journal of Surgery), Volume 106, Issue 11, Page 1433-1441, October 2019., 2019
A video and medical data recorder in the operating theatre is possible, but concerns over privacy, data use and litigation have limited widespread implementation. Transparency on the use and purpose of the recorded data should be ensured to both staff and patients. Clear legislation on data responsibility is needed to use the medical recorder optimally
A. S. H. M. van Dalen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

EHA2021 Virtual Congress Abstract Book

open access: yes, 2021
HemaSphere, Volume 5, Issue S2, June 2021.
wiley   +1 more source

Mujeres Públicas and women in public: Scrutinising the history of prostitution in eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century Mexico

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 86-101, March 2026.
Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
wiley   +1 more source

Cross‐Movement Radical Housing Alliances in Argentina: For a Feminist Grammar of Tenant Organising

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 1995-2014, September 2025.
Abstract This paper explores the intersections between tenant and feminist movements in Argentina, focusing on the collaboration between Inquilinos Agrupados and the Ni Una Menos collective. It highlights how feminist–tenant alliances have created new feminist grammars in tenant organising through forms of solidarity and feminist pedagogies.
Ana Vilenica
wiley   +1 more source

Using Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) in emergency clinical situations against patient's autonomy: A case study analysis

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 435-447, June 2025.
Abstract In this paper, we present a comprehensive case study analysis of a specific legal order issued by the Court of First Instance Number 6 of Santiago de Compostela on March 21, 2023. The focal point of the case study is the utilization of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), a specific neurotechnology, in an emergency clinical situation.
Ekain Payán Ellacuria   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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