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Informed Consent, Cultural Sensitivity, and Respect for Persons
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The doctrine of informed consent to medical treatment or research is grounded in the ethical principle of respect for persons that regards individuals as autonomous agents "capable of deliberation about personal goals and of acting under the direction of such deliberation."Abstract:
The doctrine of informed consent to medical treatment or research is grounded in the ethical principle of respect for persons that regards individuals as autonomous agents "capable of deliberation about personal goals and of acting under the direction of such deliberation."1International ethical codes and human rights law appear to accept informed consent as a universal expression of respect for persons. The Nuremberg Code, Helsinki IV, and the Council of International Organizations of Medical Sciences' ethical guidelines focus on the need for full disclosure to enable individuals to make free and informed decisions. Informed consent is also thought to be incorporated into the right to security of the person recognized in the International Bill of Human Rights. The right to autonomy or self-determination, then, is broadly perceived to be a morally necessary method of demonstrating genuine respect for human integrity. See also pp 820 and 826. But is theread more
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Ethnicity and Attitudes Toward Patient Autonomy
TL;DR: Korean-American and Mexican-American subjects were more likely to hold a family-centered model of medical decision making rather than the patient autonomy model favored by most of the African- American and European- American subjects.
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Western Bioethics on the Navajo Reservation: Benefit or Harm?
TL;DR: Policies complying with the Patient Self-determination Act, which are intended to expose all hospitalized Navajo patients to advance care planning, are ethically troublesome and warrant reevaluation.
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Truth telling to the patient.
TL;DR: The Virtual Mentor journal as discussed by the authors is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association (AMAJIA), which allows physicians to determine how much information to share with patients about their medical prognosis.
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Informed consent: some challenges to the universal validity of the Western model.
TL;DR: An account of informed consent as it is envisioned and ethically grounded in the Western world is presented and a proposal for a procedural approach to the resolution of problems with informed consent is proposed.