Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Patient Autonomy: Competent and Incompetent Patient and Research Participant To Consent
Patient Autonomy: Competent and Incompetent Patient and Research Participant To Consent
Bioethics
on the other hand, is a quasi-social
science that offers solutions to the moral
conflicts that arise in medical and
biological science practice
(Sohim Aksoy, 2002)2
The Belmont Report
The basic moral/ethical principles3,4
Beneficence
Maximizing - benefits, minimizing-risk
do no harm (non – maleficence)
Justice
treat morally Wright and proper
Equitable distribution
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Medico-legal perspective