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Modern Elements Of Informed Consent For General Veterinary Practitioners, Martin J. Fettman, Bernard Rollin

Professional Veterinary Ethics Collection

No abstract provided.

Update - May 2002, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- The Compleat Physician
-- Informed Consent Documentation for Total Artificial Hearth Technology
-- Ralph J. and Carolyn Thompson Endowment established in 2001

Ethical Issues In Conducting Behavioral Genetics Research: The Case Of Smoking Prevention Trials Among Adolescents, Benjamin S. Wilfond, Gail Geller, Janet Audrain-Mcgovern, Caryn Lerman

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Informed Consent And Patients' Rights In Japan: 2001 Epilogue, Robert B. Leflar

Robert B Leflar

Japan is on a steeper trajectory toward the incorporation of informed consent principles into medical practice than the “gradual transformation” observed in a 1996 article, Informed Consent and Patients’ Rights in Japan. Among the most significant recent developments from 1996 to 2001 have been these seven: (1) the 1997 enactment of the Organ Transplantation Law permitting the use of brain death criteria in limited circumstances in which informed consent is present; (2) the strengthening of patients’ rights in clinical drug trials; (3) the continued trend toward increasing disclosure to patients of cancer diagnoses; (4) initiatives by the health ministry toward …