Informed consent

It is commonly agreed on that the use of physical force to make someone have sex with you is a clear instance of rape. However, can someone be raped without the use of physical violence? Conly’s approach to rape removes the traditional idea of force playing a key role in constituting rape, but instead focusses on what drove that person to allow sex to happen, despite there being no presence of violence and not wanting to have sex (Conly, 2004, p. 98). Igor Primoratz’s definition of sexual…

Affirmative: The prompt-- Resolved: Adolescents ought to have the right to make autonomous medical choices. What it means a young person in the process of developing from a child into an adult (adolescent from Dictionary.com) should make their own medical decisions. To start, many people may be scared of this but change in this case, change is good. 1. My first point is that teenagers are more independent. A source says: “teenagers are much more independent in all areas of their lives...…

An unconscious patient poses many ethical and legal difficulties. As medical students we must use principles from all three 'Tomorrow's Doctor' outcomes to allow us to appropriately care for a patient who is unable to respond to questioning or consent to treatment. There are three outcomes we must pertain too: a doctor as a scientist and scholar, a doctor as a practitioner and a doctor as a professional. Immediately when presented with an unconscious patient the first duty of care is to ensure…

Brawley’s experience at National Cancer Institute is very eye-opening. I like the story of CD-4 study in the Chapter 15 The Guillain-Barre Syndrome. As a pharmacy student with interest in clinical research, I understand the importance to get the consent of the patients including not only the possible advantages but also the uncertainty of the risks. In this story, an AIDS patient with failure of three courses of therapy eagerly wanted to be enrolled in the CD-4 phase 1 clinical trial because of…

Today I am going to be writing about my opinion on whyI think a six hour day would become standard in th United States of America.There are three reasons that support my opinion on why a six hour day would become standard in the United States of America,First six hour days are bad for peoples health.Second early hours have employees brains thinking harder and faster.Last but not least employees can not stay focused for up to eight hours consistantly on a job. Six hours are bad for…

The Tuskegee governmental study of poor African American males breached many moral and ethical standards that were later established and outlined in the 1974 Belmont Report. The first being, “Beneficence”, according to the Belmont Report “Persons are treated in and ethical manner not only by respecting their decisions and protecting them from harm, but also by making efforts to secure their well being” pg.3. The fact that the government and the researchers (doctors) knew that not giving the…

Case 2: A Question of Informed Consent 1. Synopsis of the case The client was having problem with socializing in school, which resulted in high levels of anxiety. Following several sessions with the school counselor, the counselor referred her to an outside program due to the client’s behavior not improving. The referred counselor informed the client that the session would not begin until parental consent was given. The client did have a concern of her parent’s reaction, however, the parents…

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man or women because it is their fault and they should take the blame and pay for the consequences. Rape should never be the victims fault. No matter how they were dressed, how drunk they were, or not being responsible. If the person did not give consent then it is considered as…

1 The charge being considered in this circumstance is rape under s 48(1) of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 (SA.) (CLCA) The fault element being pursued is intention to have sex with the knowledge of non-consent (KNC) and reckless indifference as to the possibility of non-consent in the alternative. This offence carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Conduct Elements Sexual Intercourse Ramsey performed sexual intercourse with C, as defined in section 5 of the CLCA. The facts…