Patient Rights: Ethical Perspectives, Emerging Developments & Global Challenges April 2015

Over the past 50 years, ethical concerns about human experimentation have emerged with the development of new medical research and technology. Although the benefits of human experimentation are well known in the fields of biology, psychology, sociology and medicine, the conditions of human research are continually controversial. This book discusses ethical perspectives, emerging developments and global challenges to patients' rights. Topics include effective informed medical consent; health and dental care rights; the ethics of HIV screening targeting the severely mentally ill; and problems with the ethics of medical publications.