Enhanced knowledge of the nature and causes of mental disorder have led increasingly to a need for the recruitment of ‘cognitively vulnerable’ participantsin biomedical research. These individuals often fall into the ‘grey area’ between obvious decisional competence and obvious decisional incompetence and, asa result, may not be recognised as having the legal capacity to make such decisions themselves. At the core of the ethical debate surrounding the participation of cognitively vulnerable individuals in research is when, if at all, we should judge them decisionally and legally competent to consent to or refuse research participation on their own behalf and when they should be judged incompetent in this respect. Only book currently available to focus exclusively upon competence to consent to biomedical research Develops a novel theory of judging decisional competence Provides an argument for supported decision-making in research Integrates insights from moral philosophy, bioethics, psychiatry and medical law Has implications for the emerging field of neuroethics
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-8603-8
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 200
- Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés