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Informed Consent Books
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Mind Maps of Clinical Research Basics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published
Informed Consent (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 12 ratings — published 1983
Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as informed-consent)
avg rating 3.84 — 367 ratings — published 1978
Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as informed-consent)
avg rating 3.77 — 13 ratings — published 2007
The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as informed-consent)
avg rating 4.29 — 198 ratings — published 2004
Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
by (shelved 1 time as informed-consent)
avg rating 3.76 — 224 ratings — published 2006
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 808,431 ratings — published 2010
“Drugs and medical technology can be enormously beneficial when used to take care of real complications, but too often they are abused when applied to women birthing normally. These women are thus subjected to unnecessary risks. The key to this problem is informed consent, an ideal too seldom realized. Informed consent means that no woman during pregnancy or labor should ever be deceived into thinking that any drug or procedure (Demerol, Seconal, spinals, caudals, epidurals, paracervical block, etc.) is guaranteed safe. Not only are there no guaranteed safe drugs, but many of them have well-known, recognized side effects and potential side effects.
Informed consent should mean that no woman would ever hear such falsehoods as, “This is harmless,” or, “I only give it in such a small dose that it can’t affect the baby,” or, “This is just a local and won’t reach the baby.”
― Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way
Informed consent should mean that no woman would ever hear such falsehoods as, “This is harmless,” or, “I only give it in such a small dose that it can’t affect the baby,” or, “This is just a local and won’t reach the baby.”
― Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way
“The uncomfortable, as well as the miraculous, fact about the human mind is how it varies from individual to individual. The process of treatment can therefore be long and complicated. Finding the right balance of drugs, whether lithium salts, anti-psychotics, SSRIs or other kinds of treatment can be a very hit or miss heuristic process requiring great patience and classy, caring doctoring. Some patients would rather reject the chemical path and look for ways of using diet, exercise and talk-therapy. For some the condition is so bad that ECT is indicated. One of my best friends regularly goes to a clinic for doses of electroconvulsive therapy, a treatment looked on by many as a kind of horrific torture that isn’t even understood by those who administer it. This friend of mine is just about one of the most intelligent people I have ever met and she says, “I know. It ought to be wrong. But it works. It makes me feel better. I sometimes forget my own name, but it makes me happier. It’s the only thing that works.” For her. Lord knows, I’m not a doctor, and I don’t understand the brain or the mind anything like enough to presume to judge or know better than any other semi-informed individual, but if it works for her…. well then, it works for her. Which is not to say that it will work for you, for me or for others.”
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