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Proving Medical Child Abuse: The Time Is Now For Ohio To Focus On The Victim And Not The Abuser, Tiffany S. Allison
Proving Medical Child Abuse: The Time Is Now For Ohio To Focus On The Victim And Not The Abuser, Tiffany S. Allison
Journal of Law and Health
Part I of this Note will discuss the history of Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy and how the medical community is trying to make the general public aware of medical child abuse. Part II provides a history of Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy and medical child abuse. It also highlights the differences in how litigation was previously handled under the nomenclature of Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy and how litigation should be handled in the future under the nomenclature of medical child abuse. Part III identifies Ohio's current statutes and federal legislation that have an effect on child abuse. Part III also identifies …
Beyond Nuremberg: A Critique Of Informed Consent In Third World Human Subject Research , Jacob Schuman
Beyond Nuremberg: A Critique Of Informed Consent In Third World Human Subject Research , Jacob Schuman
Journal of Law and Health
This Article discusses the history of informed consent, critically analyzes this principle, and suggests an alternative approach to informed consent. Part II explores the concept of informed consent, including its philosophical bases, its implementation through FDA regulations, and current proposals on how to protect the principle in drug testing conducted abroad. Part III performs a critical analysis of the principle of informed consent; first providing an empirical examination of the realities of Third World human subject research, and then questioning both the coherence of an abstract “right” to informed consent, as well as the possibility of truly autonomous “consent” to …