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| Date: | 12.06.2006, 12:00h to 13.06.2006, 20:00h |
| Location: | Seglarhotellet, 130 39 Sandham Sandham Sweden |
| Keywords: | Health care system/Health policy |
| Details: | Although of central importance to clinical practice and biomedical research, rules of informed consent have for quite some time been criticized for being too formalistic, being insensitive to the various conditions in which they are applied, setting too strict requirements when risks are small, and underestimating difficulties in communicating information. Moreover, the emphasis put on informed consent reveals how autonomy has increasingly been considered the most important ethical principle at the possible expense of other values and principles. The symposium Rethinking Informed Consent: The limits of autonomy invites scientists and scholars from both philosophy and clinical/research settings to address these issues in order to identify the limits of informed consent in protecting the diversity of interests of patients and research subjects. More specifically, the symposium aims to: 1. critically examine the ?standard view? of informed consent in health care and biomedical research, in terms of both its philosophical underpinnings and the practical difficulties encountered in applying it in real-life situations, and to 2. develop well-argued positions on alternative forms of information and consent procedures, or alternatives to informed consent, for situations where the standard form seems less than adequate. The symposium particularly focuses on the role given to autonomy in the standard view. It ponders whether informed consent as applied gives sufficient room for all interests and values involved in health care and biomedical research. |
| Organizer: | Centre for Bioethics at Karolinska Institutet & Uppsala University , Sweden |
| Contact: | Mrs Josephine Fernow Address: Uppsala University, Karolinska Institutet, Centre for Bioethics, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala Science Park, 751 85 Uppsala, Sweden Tel: +46 - 18 - 6 11 22 96 Fax: +46 - 18 - 50 64 04 Email: josepine.fernow@bioethics.uu.se; bioethics@bioethics.uu.se |
| Webpage: | http://www.bioethics.uu.se/symposium/2006/ |
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