Consultation and Consent Protocols and Self-determination

Consultation and Consent Protocols and Self-determination
Author: Martha Priscylla Monteiro Joca Martins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
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This doctoral research investigates the major difficulties and potentialities of applying autonomous consultation and consent protocols elaborated by Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and traditional peoples and communities as guidelines to implement free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC). These peoples and communities have elaborated their protocols grounded on their right to selfdetermination and based on international, national, and their own pluralistic laws to establish how they want to be consulted and their requirements for providing or withholding consent. This research examines how peoples and communities have asserted FPIC frameworks in their protocols, how the law has made room for the protocols' application, and how the protocols have been effectively applied as guidelines in consultation and consent processes. These objectives were pursued through (i) a documentary analysis of autonomous protocols elaborated by diverse peoples and communities in Brazil, Canada, and other countries in the Americas; (ii) a documentary analysis of how the international human rights system has made room for recognition of the protocols; and (iii) a study on the application of the protocols in Brazil, with particular focus on Indigenous protocols in the Amazon region, using open-ended interviews, documentary analysis, and exploratory secondary research. The documentary research on the protocols and the international human rights system and the focused study on application in Brazil provided findings that allow for important reflections on the foremost difficulties and potentialities of applying the protocols. The results reveal that the main difficulties in acknowledging and applying the protocols concern the legal-political challenges of implementing FPIC and how the protocols relate to state legal frameworks, in the sense that state-centric views may disregard or restrain the application of the frameworks established in the protocols. Conversely, the research demonstrates that, from a self-determining perspective, peoples and communities have the right to determine frameworks and guidelines for consulting with them and seeking their consent, and shows that the protocols express their autonomous framework for consent. Finally, the research proves that the protocols' application has the potential to implement FPIC respecting the rights, institutions, pluralistic laws, and cosmopolitics of the peoples/communities who authored them.

Self-determination in Health Care

Self-determination in Health Care
Author: Dr Leroy C. Edozien
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015-07-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1472462009

It is generally accepted in legal and bioethical discourse that the patient has a right to self-determination. In practice though, this is often not the case. Paternalism is waning and it is increasingly recognised that there are values other than medical factors which determine the choices that patients make. Unfortunately, these developments have not resulted in huge advances for patient self-determination, which is largely because the consent model has fundamental flaws that constrain its effectiveness. This book sets out to offer an alternative model to consent. In the property model proposed here, the patient’s bodily integrity is protected from unauthorised invasion, and their legitimate expectation to be provided with the relevant information to make an informed decision is taken to be a proprietary right. It is argued that the property model potentially overcomes the limitations of the consent model, including the obstacle caused by the requirement to prove causation in consent cases. The author proposes that this model could in the future provide an alternative or complementary approach for the courts to consider when dealing with cases relating to self-determination in health care.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318737

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Clinical Ethics

Clinical Ethics
Author: Albert R. Jonsen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1992
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

Clinical Ethics introduces the four-topics method of approaching ethical problems (i.e., medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features). Each of the four chapters represents one of the topics. In each chapter, the authors discuss cases and provide comments and recommendations. The four-topics method is an organizational process by which clinicians can begin to understand the complexities involved in ethical cases and can proceed to find a solution for each case.

The Belmont Report

The Belmont Report
Author: United States. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research
Publisher:
Total Pages: 614
Release: 1978
Genre: Ethics, Medical
ISBN:

Informed Consent

Informed Consent
Author: Jessica W. Berg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2001-07-12
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199747784

Informed consent - as an ethical ideal and legal doctrine - has been the source of much concern to clinicians. Drawing on a diverse set of backgrounds and two decades of research in clinical settings, the authors - a lawyer, a physician, a social scientist, and a philosopher - help clinicians understand and cope with their legal obligations and show how the proper handling of informed consent can improve , rather than impede, patient care. Following a concise review of the ethical and legal foundations of informed consent, they provide detailed, practical suggestions for incorporating informed consent into clinical practice. This completely revised and updated edition discusses how to handle informed consent in all phases of the doctor-patient relationship, use of consent forms, patients' refusals of treatment, and consent to research. It comments on recent laws and national policy, and addresses cutting edge issues, such as fulfilling physician obligations under managed care. This clear and succinct book contains a wealth of information that will not only help clinicians meet the legal requirements of informed consent and understand its ethical underpinnings, but also enhance their ability to deal with their patients more effectively. It will be of value to all those working in areas where issues of informed consent are likely to arise, including medicine, biomedical research, mental health care, nursing, dentistry, biomedical ethics, and law.

Responsibility in Health Care

Responsibility in Health Care
Author: G.J. Agich
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9400978316

Medicine is a complex social institution which includes biomedical research, clinical practice, and the administration and organization of health care delivery. As such, it is amenable to analysis from a number of disciplines and directions. The present volume is composed of revised papers on the theme of "Responsibility in Health Care" presented at the Eleventh Trans Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine, which was held in Springfield, illinois on March 16-18, 1981. The collective focus of these essays is the clinical practice of medicine and the themes and issues related to questions of responsibility in that setting. Responsibility has three related dimensions which make it a suitable theme for an inquiry into clinical medicine: (a) an external dimension in legal and political analysis in which the State imposes penalties on individuals and groups and in which officials and governments are held accountable for policies; (b) an internal dimension in moral and ethical analysis in which individuals take into account the consequences of their actions and the criteria which bear upon their choices; and (c) a comprehensive dimension in social and cultural analysis in which values are ordered in the structure of a civilization ([8], p. 5). The title "Responsibility in Health Care" thus signifies a broad inquiry not only into the ethics of individual character and actions, but the moral foundations of the cultural, legal, political, and social context of health care generally.

Conducting Biosocial Surveys

Conducting Biosocial Surveys
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2010-10-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0309157064

Recent years have seen a growing tendency for social scientists to collect biological specimens such as blood, urine, and saliva as part of large-scale household surveys. By combining biological and social data, scientists are opening up new fields of inquiry and are able for the first time to address many new questions and connections. But including biospecimens in social surveys also adds a great deal of complexity and cost to the investigator's task. Along with the usual concerns about informed consent, privacy issues, and the best ways to collect, store, and share data, researchers now face a variety of issues that are much less familiar or that appear in a new light. In particular, collecting and storing human biological materials for use in social science research raises additional legal, ethical, and social issues, as well as practical issues related to the storage, retrieval, and sharing of data. For example, acquiring biological data and linking them to social science databases requires a more complex informed consent process, the development of a biorepository, the establishment of data sharing policies, and the creation of a process for deciding how the data are going to be shared and used for secondary analysis-all of which add cost to a survey and require additional time and attention from the investigators. These issues also are likely to be unfamiliar to social scientists who have not worked with biological specimens in the past. Adding to the attraction of collecting biospecimens but also to the complexity of sharing and protecting the data is the fact that this is an era of incredibly rapid gains in our understanding of complex biological and physiological phenomena. Thus the tradeoffs between the risks and opportunities of expanding access to research data are constantly changing. Conducting Biosocial Surveys offers findings and recommendations concerning the best approaches to the collection, storage, use, and sharing of biospecimens gathered in social science surveys and the digital representations of biological data derived therefrom. It is aimed at researchers interested in carrying out such surveys, their institutions, and their funding agencies.

The Ethics of Consent

The Ethics of Consent
Author: Franklin Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2009-10-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 019971505X

Consent is a basic component of the ethics of human relations, making permissible a wide range of conduct that would otherwise be wrongful. Consent marks the difference between slavery and employment, permissible sexual relations and rape, borrowing or selling and theft, medical treatment and battery, participation in research and being a human guinea pig. This book assembles the contributions of a distinguished group of scholars concerning the ethics of consent in theory and practice. Part One addresses theoretical perspectives on the nature and moral force of consent, and its relationship to key ethical concepts, such as autonomy and paternalism. Part Two examines consent in a broad range of contexts, including sexual relations, contracts, selling organs, political legitimacy, medicine, and research.

Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes

Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes
Author: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/AHRQ
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1587634333

This User’s Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a common procedure, clinical encounter, or hospitalization. Disease or condition registries are defined by patients having the same diagnosis, such as cystic fibrosis or heart failure. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews.