Beyond Autonomy - Limits and Alternatives to Informed Consent in Research Ethics and Law

Analyses the limitations of respect for autonomy and consent in human research ethics and explores alternative ethical approaches.

List of contents

Introduction. The limits of respect for autonomy David G. Kirchhoffer; Part I. Exploring Problems of Respect for Autonomy in Bioethics, Law and Society: 1. Autonomy and the law: widely used, poorly defined Bernadette J. Richards; 2. Lack of autonomy: debates concerning research involving children Thomas H. Murray; 3. Diminished autonomy: consent and chronic addiction Steve Matthews and Jeanette Kennett; 4. Compromised autonomy: social inequality and issues of status and control S. Stewart Braun; Part II. The Search for Alternative or Complementary Concepts Surrounding Autonomy: 5. Self-ownership in research ethics Garrett Cullity; 6. Beneficence in research ethics David G. Kirchhoffer, Christi D. Favor and Christopher D. Cordner; 7. Dignity, being and becoming in research ethics David G. Kirchhoffer; 8. Virtues in research ethics: developing an empirically-informed account of virtues in biomedical research practice Justin Oakley; Part III. Beyond Autonomy: Turning to the Community to Protect the Individual: 9. Duties of shared membership in research ethics José Miola; 10. Engaging communities in human research in the Global South Anita Ho; 11. Reducing shared vulnerabilities to data misuse Wendy Rogers.

About the author

David G. Kirchhoffer is Director of the Queensland Bioethics Centre at the Australian Catholic University's Brisbane Campus. He holds a Ph.D. from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and an M.Phil. from St Augustine College of South Africa. He is the author of Human Dignity in Contemporary Ethics (2013).Bernadette J. Richards is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Research Unit for the Study of Society, Ethics and the Law at the University of Adelaide, and a member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee. She is a chief investigator of a current NHMRC-funded Partnership Grant exploring advance care planning and is currently writing a book entitled Technology, Healthcare and the Law: An evolving relationship (forthcoming).

Product details

• Authors: David G. Richards Kirchhoffer
• Assisted by: David G. Kirchhoffer (Editor), Bernadette J. Richards (Editor), Bernadette J. (University of Adelaide) Richards (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781108491907
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49190-7
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Medical Law & Legislation, Bioethics, Forensic Medicine, Bio-ethics, Medical & healthcare law, Medical Sociology, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Medical and healthcare law, Legal Ethics & Professional Conduct, Legal ethics and professional conduct