Medical research and Alzheimer's disease: A study of the hazards of conducting research on the incompetent patient

Medical Law International

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 291-313

  Moodie, Peter ^a   Wright, Moira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

EID: 0030404095     PISSN: 09685332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096853329700200402     Document Type: Review

References (2)

1. Mental Incapacity, Law Com. 231, (February 1995).
2. However, it should be acknowledged that it has been suggested that observance of autonomy is sometimes better tempered by a degree of paternalism. See eg Fennell, Inscribing paternalism in the law: consent to treatment and mental disorder [1990] 17 Journal of Law and Society 29, "There is now widespread acknowledgement of the folly of rigid insistence upon the ascendency of patient autonomy over paternalism where the result would be to harm the patient... Paternalism is recognised as legitimate up to a certain point.".