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  2. Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of ...

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    The issue of consent is pivotal to the Convention because of the relationship it has to individual autonomy. Medical intervention carried out without consent is a general prohibition within Article 5. [20] Furthermore, consent must be free and fully informed. Free and informed consent is based on objective information. Protection is afforded to ...

  3. Informed consent - Wikipedia

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    Medical sociologists have studied informed consent as well bioethics more generally. Oonagh Corrigan, looking at informed consent for research in patients, argues that much of the conceptualization of informed consent comes from research ethics and bioethics with a focus on patient autonomy, and notes that this aligns with a neoliberal worldview.

  4. List of medical ethics cases - Wikipedia

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    Doctors infected soldiers, prostitutes, prisoners, and mental patients with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases without the informed consent of the subjects, and treated most subjects with antibiotics. This resulted in at least 83 deaths. [12] In October 2010, the US formally apologized to Guatemala for conducting these experiments.

  5. Bioethics - Wikipedia

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    Western bioethics is focused on rights, especially individual rights. Islamic bioethics focuses more on religious duties and obligations, such as seeking treatment and preserving life. [35] Islamic bioethics is heavily influenced and connected to the teachings of the Qur'an as well as the teachings of Muhammad. These influences essentially make ...

  6. Medical ethics - Wikipedia

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    Medical ethics is an applied branch of ethics which analyzes the practice of clinical medicine and related scientific research. [1] Medical ethics is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict.

  7. Free, prior and informed consent - Wikipedia

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    Consent is not defined but is granted or withheld after a process that involves consultation and participation. However, mere consultation by itself is not a substitute for actual consent. [5] The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights notes that Indigenous Peoples "should determine autonomously how they define and establish consent." [6]

  8. Doctor–patient relationship - Wikipedia

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    Historically in many cultures there has been a shift from paternalism, the view that the "doctor always knows best", to the idea that patients must have a choice in the provision of their care and be given the right to provide informed consent to medical procedures. [13]

  9. Unethical human experimentation - Wikipedia

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    Unethical human experimentation is human experimentation that violates the principles of medical ethics.Such practices have included denying patients the right to informed consent, using pseudoscientific frameworks such as race science, and torturing people under the guise of research.