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Author:   Vijaya L. Melnick ,  Nancy N. Dubler
Publisher:   Humana Press Inc.
Imprint:   Humana Press Inc.
Edition:   1985 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   1.500kg
ISBN:  

9780896030671

ISBN 10:   0896030679
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   05 July 1985
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Legal and Science Background.- Current Frontiers in Research on Alzheimer’s Disease.- Current Regulations for the Protection of Human Subjects.- Clinical Symptoms Accompanying Progressive Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer’s Disease: Relationship to “Denial” and Ability to Give Informed Consent.- The Physician-Researcher: Role Conflicts.- 2 Personal Perspectives.- Impact of Alzheimers Disease and the Role of the Patient’s Family.- Advocacy for Persons with Senile Dementia.- Ethical Issues in the Care of the Patient Involved in Alzheimer’s Disease Research.- 3 Historical, Legal, and Ethical Background.- Research Objectives and the Social Structuring of the Research Enterprise: An Historical and Ethical Perspective.- Research on Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type: Ethical Issues Involving Informed Consent.- An Alternative Approach to Informed Consent in Research with Vulnerable Patients.- Technical Aspects of Obtaining Informed Consent from Persons with Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type.- 4 Institutional Issues.- The Need for Alternatives to Informed Consent by Older Patients: Psychological and Physical Aspects of the Institutionalized Elderly.- Legal Issues in Research on Institutionalized Demented Patients.- Issues of Equity in the Selection of Subjects for Experimental Research on Senile Dementia of the Alzheimers Type.- 5 Competency to Give Consent.- Competency to Consent to Research.- Assuring Adequate Consent: Special Considerations in Patients of Uncertain Competence.- Assessment of Competence to Give Informed Consent.- 6 Proxy and Derived Consent.- Autonomy and Proxy Consent.- Derived Consent, Proxy Consent: Legal Issues.- Clinical Research in Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type: Suggested Guidelines Addressing the Ethical and LegalIssues.

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