It has been illegal to treat humans like guinea pigs since the Nuremberg trials, in which Nazi doctors were punished for doing unspeakable things to prisoners. These days, we have to explain the ...

Respecting "individual autonomy" through "[f]ree and informed consent" that is given voluntarily by the person who will participate in the research Replacing the term "physicians" with "physicians and ...

Informed consent represents one of the most important ethical aspects of clinical treatments and scientific research involving humans. This article will discuss the key elements of informed consent ...

Moral Concerns of Different Types of Patients in Clinical BRCA1/2 Gene Mutation Testing PURPOSE: To create a more meaningful understanding of the informed consent process as it has come to be ...

Providing informed consent is a bedrock of ethical medical practice -- and a physician’s failure to provide proper informed consent is grounds for legal action. But, determining what constitutes ...

Brian Green is director of technology ethics and co-author of “Ethics in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: An Operational Roadmap” (The ITEC Handbook). Views are his own. This article, "Should AI ...

Failure to obtain informed consent can result in significant consequences Exceptions to informed consent apply only in limited circumstances Elements of valid informed consent include patient capacity ...

While informed consent is a central theme in biomedical ethics, there are structural obstacles that compromise its implementation, particularly in genetic research. These include the hierarchical ...

Obtaining informed consent is more than getting a signature on a form. Informed consent is one of the primary ethical considerations underlying research with human subjects. ALL human subject research ...

Jeremy Howick does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...