How Long to Read Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research

How Long Does it Take to Read Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 7 minutes to read Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research by Philip Bielby

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Description

Enhanced knowledge of the nature and causes of mental disorder have led increasingly to a need for the recruitment of ‘cognitively vulnerable’ participants in biomedical research. These individuals often fall into the ‘grey area’ between obvious decisional competence and obvious decisional incompetence and, as a result, may not be recognised as having the legal capacity to make such decisions themselves. At the core of the ethical debate surrounding the participation of cognitively vulnerable individuals in research is when, if at all, we should judge them decisionally and legally competent to consent to or refuse research participation on their own behalf and when they should be judged incompetent in this respect. In this book, the author develops a novel justificatory framework for making judgments of decisional competence to consent to biomedical research with reference to five groups of cognitively vulnerable individuals - older children and adolescents, adults with intellectual disabilities, adults with depression, adults with schizophrenia and adults with dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. Using this framework, the author argues that we can make morally defensible judgments about the competence or incompetence of a potential participant to give contemporaneous consent to research by having regard to whether a judgment of competence would be more harmful to the ‘generic rights’ of the potential participant than a judgment of incompetence. The argument is also used to justify an account of supported decision-making in research, and applied to evaluate the extent to which this approach is evident in existing ethical guidelines and legal provisions. The book will be of interest to bioethicists as well as psychiatrists and academic medical lawyers interested in normative questions raised by the concepts of competence and capacity.

How long is Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research?

Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research by Philip Bielby is 244 pages long, and a total of 61,976 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research aloud.

What Reading Level is Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research?

Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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