Refusal to Participate - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Drunk driving, implied consent, and self-incrimination.

30 Dec 2008 The effects of drunk driving are a significant risk to public health and safety. Accordingly, the federal government and the states have enacted laws that permit law enforcement to identify offenders and to apply various levels of sanctions. There ... Read more...

A taxonomy of reasoning flaws in the anti-vaccine movement.

16 Jan 2007 In a scholarly analysis of widely held misconceptions, Gilovich provides a classification scheme of common flaws in reasoning seen in contemporary society. He broadly categorizes these flaws as having cognitive determinants or in having motivational ... Read more...

Implementation of informed consent for a cystic fibrosis newborn screening program in France: low refusal rates for optional testing.

30 Aug 2005 OBJECTIVES: The French Association for Neonatal Screening implemented cystic fibrosis neonatal screening (CF NBS) region by region in France, from the beginning of the year 2002 to early 2003. The program uses an immunoreactive trypsinogen/DNA ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Refusal to Participate - Legislation & jurisprudence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Drunk driving, implied consent, and self-incrimination. 30 Dec 2008
• Morals, medicine and geography. 2 Nov 2008
• A taxonomy of reasoning flaws in the anti-vaccine movement. 16 Jan 2007
• Foolish vaccine exemptions. 10 Oct 2006
• [Lack of insurance was not the issue] 28 Mar 2006
• Plan B battles embroil states; proposals mirror red-blue divide. 25 Feb 2006
• Health workers' choice debated: proposals back right not to treat. 28 Jan 2006
• Summary judgment on patient's battery and negligence claims reversed. Mullins v. Parkview Hospital, Inc. 30 Oct 2005
• Implementation of informed consent for a cystic fibrosis newborn screening program in France: low refusal rates for optional testing. 30 Aug 2005
• Fear, ambivalence, and liminality: key concepts in refusal to donate an organ after brain death. 29 Jun 2005
• Congressmen say military should have the right to informed consent. 27 Feb 2005
• Prescriptions denied: pharmacy clauses have become the latest battleground in the provision of safe and legal medical services. 30 Dec 2004
• Informed consent and public health: are they compatible when it comes to vaccines? 30 Dec 2004
• Coronial autopsies: a rising tide of objections. 31 Jul 2004
• Gene privacy for Icelanders. 30 Mar 2004
• US soldiers refuse to fall in line with anthrax vaccination scheme. 30 Jan 2004
• A nation's genes for a cure to cancer: evolving ethical, social and legal issues regarding population genetic databases. 30 Dec 2003
• Storm clouds gathering: while the number of mergers wanes, the threats from the Catholic hierarchy to reproductive health care continue. 30 Dec 2003
• Vanishing vaccinations: why are so many Americans opting out of vaccinating their children? 30 Dec 2003
• Law and public policy to protect health-care rights of conscience. 30 Dec 2003

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Technical information about 'Refusal to Participate'

Definition: Refusal to take part in activities or procedures that are requested or expected of an individual. This may include refusal by HEALTH PERSONNEL to participate in specific medical procedures or refusal by PATIENTS or members of the public to take part in CLINICAL TRIALS or health promotion programs.

Descriptor UI: D045808

Alternative terms: Refusal to Participate; Participate, Refusal to;

Related Mesh Headings: Conscience; Patient Participation; Refusal to Treat; Treatment Refusal;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; ethics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: F02.463.785.373.476.850;

History Note: 2004; use DISSENT AND DISPUTES 2003