Consent By Proxy
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1. Avaliação da diversidade no processo de obtenção do consentimento através da autorização por representação em situações assistenciais e de pesquisa envolvendo crianças e idosos
A Autorização por Representação é utilizada quando uma pessoa está impossibilitada - ou não habilitada legalmente - para consentir com um determinado procedimento assistencial ou com a participação em um projeto de pesquisa. Um dos diversos fatores que podem influenciar o representante durante o processo de autorização é a idade da pessoa represe
Publicado em: 2008
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2. Proxy consent: moral authority misconceived
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 has provided unified scope in the British medical system for proxy consent with regard to medical decisions, in the form of a lasting power of attorney. While the intentions are to increase the autonomous decision making powers of those unable to consent, the author of this paper argues that the whole notion of proxy consent coll
BMJ Group.
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3. On children and proxy consent.
The meaning of valid proxy consent for children has recently been the subject of an important debate between Richard McCormick and Paul Ramsey on the ethics of experimenting with children. Ramsey is willing to agree with McCormick that parental consent for a child to undergo some medical procedure is valid only if parents consider what the child would consen
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4. Resurrecting autonomy during resuscitation--the concept of professional substituted judgment.
The urgency of the resuscitation and the impaired ability of the patient to make a reasonable autonomous decision both conspire against adequate consideration of the principles of medical ethics. Informed consent is usually not possible for these reasons and this leads many to consider that consent is not required for resuscitation, because resuscitation bri