Bioethical Research One of the Term Paper

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Also, there has been pressure in the different professions for every research design to follow these general procedures (Chadwick, Bahr, & Albrecht, 1984, pp. 19-20).

The researcher needs protection as well as the subject does. An important protection of confidentiality is testimonial privilege. This protection is not absolute and must yield to other concerns in some cases such as state's requirement that certain diseases (infectious diseases) or injuries (child abuse or neglect, gun shot wounds) be reported to prevent further injury. Written, informed consent to release information is the best defense against an allegation of a breach of confidentiality (Brent, 1997, p. 258).

Bioethics and informed consent extend beyond the area of research into that of medical practice, calling for medical personnel to inform patients of what treatment are being given and what options the patient may have. Such efforts are seen as both ethical and as empowering for patients, as Wear (1998) notes:

By placing obligations regarding informed consent on health care providers, the doctrine mandates the provision of information upon which patients can fashion their own views and decisions about the manner of their care. Equally, patients are given the power to enforce their decisions, a power now enshrined as the right to refuse treatment.
Informed consent is thus the cutting edge of the patient autonomy movement (Wear, 1998, p. 2).

Bioethics has also become more and more enmeshed with religious issues in an era where abortion is more common and the possibility of human cloning is raised, even simply the cloning of cells for stem cell research. Such questions also must be addressed in bioethical models and generally have been......

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