PHIL 1165 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: World Medical Association, Hippocratic Oath, Nuremberg Code
26 Sep 2016
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Karina da rosa: consent, hippocratic oath and passive consent i. Instilling trustful and promising secrecy establishes passive consent : there is a presumption that there is no risk ii. Issues with simple consent: tuskegee case i. ii. Study experimented the long term role of syphilis in the black male population: willowbrook school case i. ii. 80% of individuals contracted hepb: fernald school i. ii. Determining the effects of radiation: university of minnesota drug trials i. Professionals have concerns with comprehensibility: professional standard i. Truth telling // character building: withholding information, beauchamp, finding the balance between autonomy and nonmaleficence i. Competency assessment: changes in mental status, refusal of treatment, consent to high risk intervention, risk factors for impaired decisions vi. Ethical//legal thresholds: communicating a choice//preference, behavior vs impulse, understanding relevant information, reasonable choice, appreciation of consequences of a decision vii. 2: springer case - refusal of necessary treatment viii.
