Image of Psychiatric Patients’ Competency to Give Informed Consent to Treatment in Japan
| Autor: | Toshinori Kitamura, Hisao Katoh, Nana Okuda, Yuuko Okazaki, Atsushi Ito, Fusako Kitamura, Takayuki Mitsuhashi |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Medical treatment business.industry Medical procedure medicine.medical_treatment Case vignette food and beverages Value system humanities Pathology and Forensic Medicine Comprehension Psychiatry and Mental health Electroconvulsive therapy Treatment Refusal Informed consent Family medicine Medicine Psychiatry business Valid consent Law Western medicine |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 22:45-54 |
| ISSN: | 0160-2527 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0160-2527(98)00036-3 |
| Popis: | The right of individuals to exercise control over matters related to their ownbody is manifest in the practice of informed consent in Western medicine (Ap-pelbaum & Grisso, 1988; Miller, 1994; Weisbard, 1986). According to the doc-trine of informed consent, competent individuals have the right to make rightand “wrong” decisions within the framework of their own value system. Thus,no physician should commence a treatment (or other medical procedure) un-less the patient gives consent. However, physicians cannot claim that theyhave obtained the valid consent of a patient unless: (a) necessary medical in |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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