enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Informed consent - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informed_consent

   As children often lack the decision-making ability or legal power (competence) to provide true informed consent for medical decisions, it often falls on parents or legal guardians to provide informed permission for medical decisions. This "consent by proxy" usually works reasonably well, but can lead to ethical dilemmas when the judgment of the ...

3. Informed assent - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informed_assent

   A child over 14 years old may be able to provide their own informed consent, independent of their parents. [13] The legal precedent is that as an emancipated minor they may consent to any medical procedure they see fit (E.g., Carter v. Cangello, 105 Cal App 3d 348, 164 Cal Rptr 361, 1980; Lacey v.

4. Parental consent - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_consent

   Parental consent laws (also known as parental involvement laws) [1] in some countries require that one or more parents consent to or be notified before their minor child [2] can legally engage in certain activities. Parental consent may refer to: A parent's right to give consent, or be informed, before their minor child undergoes medical ...

5. Patient recruitment - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_recruitment

   If children are over the age of 7, it is required that the child assent (agree) to participate in the research in addition to parent approval. [19] When discussing research with a child, all aspects of the study must be communicated in a clear way that they can understand. [18] Any written consent must be placed at an age-appropriate reading ...

6. List of medical ethics cases - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_ethics_cases

   Informed consent to medical treatment case country location year summary Christiane Völling: Germany 2011 Informed consent and involuntary sex reassignment in the case of an adult intersex woman. Gillick competence: England 1985 The right of minors to request contraception from their doctor without parental consent.

7. Unethical human experimentation in the United States

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human...

   A 1953 article in the medical/scientific journal Clinical Science [110] described a medical experiment in which researchers intentionally blistered the skin on the abdomens of 41 children, who ranged in age from 8 to 14, using cantharide. The study was performed to determine how severely the substance injures/irritates the skin of children.