Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research

by Philip Bielby

Book Overview

Enhanced knowledge of the nature and causes of mental disorder have led increasingly to a need for the recruitment of 'cognitively vulnerable' participants in biomedical research. These individuals often fall into the 'grey area' between obvious decisional competence and obvious decisional incompetence and, as a result, may not be recognised as having the legal capacity to make such decisions themselves. At the core of the ethical debate surrounding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048179319
• ISBN13: 9789048179312
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"