Making informed consent meaningful

IRB Ethics and Human Research

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1-5

  Brody, Baruch A ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

COERCION; COMPREHENSION; CONSENT FORMS; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENTION; NONTHERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY;

EID: 0009625051     PISSN: 01937758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3564045     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. See, for example, Faden R and Beauchamp T. A History and Theory of Informed Consent. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986; ch. 7.
2. This formulation incorporates some of the concept of authenticity into the concept of autonomy, not as an independent element but as part of the concept of intentionality.
3. See, for example, Smith T, Lee J, Kantarjian H, et al. Design and results of phase I cancer clinical trials. Journal of Clinical Oncology 1996; 14: 287-95;
4. Daugherty C, Ratain M, Grochowski E, et al. Perception of cancer patients and their physicians involved in phase I trials. Journal of Clinical Oncology 1995; 13: 1962-72.
5. See the discussion of this issue in ref. 2, Faden and Beauchamp 1986.
6. See the discussion of this issue in Office for Protection from Research Risks. Protecting Human Research Subjects: Institutional Review Board Guidebook. Washington, D.C.: National Institutes of Health, 1993: 3-45.
7. I have in mind here the extremely valuable discussion of this point in Grisso T and Appelbaum P. Comparison of standards for assessing patients' capacities to make treatment decisions. American Journal of Psychiatry 1995; 152: 1033-7.
8. This alternative approach is discussed in several of the essays in Kahn J, Mastroianni A, Sugarman J, eds. Beyond Consent. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
9. See, for example, the data summarized and analyzed in Schneider C. The Practice of Autonomy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.