Childress (University of Virginia) will give a lecture at the University of Münster on adequate concepts of autonomy in bioethics. The public lecture entitled"Respecting Autonomy in Bioethics: Do We ...

Online consent is typically given when users click a button to agree to a website's terms and conditions. Critics argue that ...

The Effect of Mental Illness on Autonomous Decision-Making Capacity. One key tenet of medical ethics is respect for patient autonomy. Respect for autonomy generally requires treating patients as ...

This course addresses ethical issues that arise in biomedical research and practice including autonomy in the doctor-patient relationship, the duty of confidentiality, the right to refuse treatment, ...

At its core, this debate questions whether personal autonomy can — or should — supersede collective responsibility, especially in the face of public health crises. As courts increasingly favor ...

Discover essential skills for understanding, thinking and reasoning about, and engaging with ethical reasoning (in general and in bioethics); Apply these reasoning ... philosophers about issues ...

Americans venerate the four ethical principles as articulated by Beauchamps and Childress: autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. However, in the current controversy pitting “medical ...

HCEI Interns and Ethics Center bioethics staff share perspectives around a variety ... A Right to Religious Freedom or an Infringement of Patient Autonomy? Because of the Ethical and Religious ...

Her own work currently focuses on autonomy and capacity in decision making in burn care, paternalism and parentalism in burn care, and monozygotic skin grafting. The Dracopoulos Bloomberg Bioethics ...