Informed consent in medicine: ethical and juridical aspects

A cura di: Carla Faralli

Informed consent in medicine: ethical and juridical aspects

This current issue of Salute e Società calls attention to the pressing need for a cross-disciplinary discussion among physicians, philosophers, and jurists in tackling questions such as personal freedom, the right to self-determination, the protection of personal data, the right not to know (especially in genetics), the spread of so-called defensive medicine, and the model we should adopt in enabling patients and physicians to share information and communicate in a way that supports the decision-making process.

Pagine: 216

ISBN: 9788856868388

Edizione:1a edizione 2013

Codice editore: 1341.54

Possibilità di stampa: No

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Contemporary medicine opens up new avenues for diagnosis and therapy, and in doing so it also makes available a huge amount of information about a person's state of health - information of immediate use, in the present, but also relevant to the future. This raises a number of concerns that take us beyond the province of medicine strictly construed. In other words, it will not suffice to involve the physician in putting that information to use through the practice of informed consent - by sharing and interpreting the information with the patient and making care decisions on that basis - for it will also be necessary, in this process, to think about the whole range of moral and legal issues arising out of the interaction and communication that goes on between patient and physician.
That is the premise for this current issue of Salute e Società, calling attention to the pressing need for a cross-disciplinary discussion among physicians, philosophers, and jurists in tackling questions such as personal freedom, the right to self-determination, the protection of personal data, the right not to know (especially in genetics), the spread of so-called defensive medicine, and the model we should adopt in enabling patients and physicians to share information and communicate in a way that supports the decision-making process.

Carla Faralli is full professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Bologna, where she teaches Applied Ethics. Her investigations are devoted to the history of legal philosophy (she has edited the updated edition of the threevolume work by Guido Fassò, Storia della filosofia del diritto(Laterza 2008), and published La filosofia del diritto contemporanea: I temi e le sfide (Laterza 2009, now in its 10th edition)) and to gender studies and law & literature. And in recent years she has been engaging in the contemporary ethical debate on the challenges posed by the biotechnologies. She is editor of Ratio Juris: An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law. She holds a position as academic advisor on the bioethics curriculum of the Doctoral Programme on Law and Technology in Bologna. And she also sits on three ethics committees: those of the Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, of the University of Bologna, and of the Bologna Medical Association.



Stefano Rodotà, Editorial
Carla Faralli, Introduction
Theory
Patrizia Borsellino, Informed Consent. Some Philosophical-Legal Concerns
Luigi Balestra, Riccardo Campione, Self-Determination over Care: The Limits of Validity and Redress through Damages
Marco Seri, Claudio Graziano, Daniela Turchetti, Juri Monducci, Genetic Tests and Informed Consent
Carlo Casonato, End of Life in Comparative Law: Duties, Rights, and Fuzzy Sets
Silvia Zullo, Self-Determination, Best Interest, and New Diagnostic Evidence regarding the Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States
Discussion
Care and Informed Consent ed. Carla Faralli
Round table with: Laura Palazzani, Francesca Ingravallo, Enrico Cieri
Research
Susi Pelotti, With and For Informed Consent to Care
Amedeo Santosuosso, Valentina Sellaroli, Informed Consent, Self-Determination and Rights to Freedom in Jurisprudence
Debate
Roger Brownsword, Informed Consent in the Information Society
Comments
Alessandro Piccinini, Informed Consent: Facing the Challenges of the "Brave New Data World"
Francesca Faenza, On the Role of Informed Consent in Making Medical Decisions: The Position of the Italian Constitutional Court.

Contributi: Luigi Balestra, Patrizia Borsellino, Roger Brownsword, Riccardo Campione, Carlo Casonato, Francesca Faenza, Claudio Graziano, Juri Monducci, Susi Pelotti, Alessandro Piccinini, Stefano Rodotà, Amedeo Santosuosso, Valentina Sellaroli, Marco Seri, Daniela Turchetti, Silvia Zullo

Collana: Salute e Società

Argomenti: Filosofia del diritto - Sociologia della salute

Livello: Studi, ricerche

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