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Informed Consent, Proxy Consent, and Catholic Bioethics

For the Good of the Subject

  • Offers a deeper and broader understanding of informed consent and proxy consent from the perspective of Christian ethics
  • Assists those in the medical field understand and critically evaluate certain relatively recent and problematic approaches to consent in healthcare
  • Provides an overview and analysis of the debates on informed and proxy consent in present-day American bioethical literature
  • Provides the reader a background essential for a thorough understanding of the matter.

Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 112)

Part of the book sub series: Catholic Studies in Bioethics (CSBE)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

About this book

This work offers a comprehensive understanding rooted in Catholic anthropology and moral theory of the meaning and limits of informed and proxy consent to experimentation on human subjects. In particular, it seeks to articulate the rationale for proxy consent in both therapeutic and nontherapeutic settings. As to the former, the book proposes that the Golden Rule, recognizing the basic inclinations of human nature toward objective goods perfective of human persons, should underpin the notion of proxy consent to experimentation on humans. As to the latter, an additional scrutiny of the amount of risk involved is necessary, since the risk-benefit ratio frequently invoked to justify higher-risk therapeutic research does not exist in its nontherapeutic counterpart. This study discusses a number of possible solutions to this question and develops a position that builds upon the objective notion of the human good.

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“This book presents an in-depth analysis of informed consent and proxy consent … and offers a robust anthropology and virtue ethic consistent with Roman Catholic teaching to justify and guide these principles. … The book is researched and written at a high academic level, but it is also very accessible and would be appropriate for philosophers, bioethicists, physicians, researchers, students, and interested readers. … this book is wonderfully refreshing in its analysis, argumentation, and thesis. … an important work in both secular and Catholic bioethics.” (Gina M. Fullam, Doody’s Review Service, May, 2011)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawla II w Kra, Krakow, Poland

    Grzegorz Mazur, O.P.

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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