Essays on Consent

Consent is one of the recognized grounds for a defense in the commission of a crime. This type of defense is usually invoked in the cases involving criminal sexual conduct, physical assault and battery. The court’s approach when recognizing consent as a defense will vary based on the causal conduct of harm afflicted to the victim by an accused. The circumstances will dictate whether the court will appreciate consent as a valid defense against liability. As a general rule, the victim’s consent will not automatically excuse an accused from liability for the harm caused. It is actually ...

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How many mentally ill people are known to have been asked or deemed capable of making their own decisions? Not a lot, everyone can agree with that. There are many cases, in the case of adults even that individuals who are suffering from a mental illness that leaves them neurologically unstable or disturbed, that they are not allowed to make their own decisions. Even though the extent of the illness may vary, there are numerous times when they are rendered incompetent and unfit to decide what is ...

Overview

Consents taking and documentation is a vital part of legal and medical ethics that guides medical practice. It serves as a tool for effective patient management. It is meant to be taking before any form of treatment simply because all patients capable of understanding of such form of information has the right to receive accurate information regarding his or her illness/condition, the physician treatment plan, associated complications and effect, and other available treatment options. It is the responsibility of the physician to ensure this is achieved and properly documented before any start of treatment.

Improper taking and documentation

The issue of improper taking ...

Whenever the topic of abortion is raised in various channels, many would immediately call for anti-abortion due to its immoral and unethical background. Many religions have also denounced abortion as it claims innocent lives. Christianity is one of the staunchest rivals for those who believe abortion can be accepted as the heads of the religion believe that a fetus already has a life and killing it would be against the laws given by God. Nowadays, this argument is further escalated when proposals for legalizing abortion has gone underway. In the United States alone, abortion is legalized in some states ...

The continued advancement in technology has cut across all spheres of the economy. The field of medicine has had its fair share of the cake having to incorporate the complexities of science and technology. One such area relates to organ transplantation. It has become possible to save humanity through the transplant of organs from one human to another. However, the process in itself though scientifically possible, remains riddled with several challenges and raises questions bordering on the moral, religious and legal frontiers. This paper essentially takes into consideration the place of the law in relation to the application ofsuch ...

Other Current and Emerging Issues in Health Care

Lesson4:1-Decision-Making Concerning Individuals: Consent
Lesson 4:2- Decision-Making Concerning Individuals: Reproductive and End-of-Life Issues
Lesson 4:3 -The Impact of Globalization & Emerging Technology
Abstract
This document contains three essays pertaining to the lesson entitled ‘Other Current and Emerging Issues in Health Care’ outlining three subject areas. Lesson4:1 relates Decision-Making Concerning Individuals: Consent; Lesson 4:2- Decision-Making Concerning Individuals: Reproductive and End-of-Life Issues and Lesson 4:3 -The Impact of Globalization & Emerging Technology.
Lesson4:1-Decision-Making Concerning Individuals: Consent
Question 1:- Case Study, Mrs. Mary Smith.

Step 1: Facts

- She was admitted to Jones Memorial Hospital
- Initially her injuries did not seem severe.
- She remained in ...

Informed Consent in Scientific Testing

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Informed consent is the process of getting the prior consent of the patient, before choices about his/her health care is made. This concept is based on the, rights a patient has on her body, and the ethical duty of the physician to inform the patient about the things happening to her body. The consent might be required both for performing a therapy for the ailment of the patient, or to make them participate in a clinical trial. An informed consent is said to have been obtained from a patient, when she is fully aware of ...

Introduction

Every criminal justice system in the world is characterized by policy and procedure directives that ensures that all the actions and processes in this system are within the constitutional and legal confines. The policy and procedure are enacted to ensure that the constitutional rights of stakeholders are not infringed upon when these individuals are exposed to a particular criminal justice process. Unfortunately, there arises some situations in the course of disseminating justice where some actions cause massive legal disagreements. An individual who has been subjected to a particular process may claim that the process was unconstitutional or that his ...

Introduction

Statutory rape is usually defined by the state law concerned. However, statutory rape is distinguished from other forms of rape in that the victim must necessarily be below the age of consent and that lack of consent is not a requisite to the crime on the common understanding that a person below a certain age lacks the capability to give an informed consent. Prior to the development of modern statutory rape laws, statutory rape was used to protect young women and children from the sexual incursion of unwanted males. At that time, women were regarded as chattels or property ...

A consent decree project was proposed by attorneys of a fictional jail named Adelphi County Jail in Maryland in the United States. This proposed consent decree was instigated by a particular situation that occurred at the jail involving two of the inmates where some prison officers accessed the inmate’s belongings on suspicion of possession of contrabands. This report analyzes the consent decree project in the context of the situation that occurred leading to the decree. This report seeks to address the extent to which this situation, the policy and procedure directive of the jail and the appellate court ...

The American Association of Christian Counselors Code of Ethics (AACC Code) and the American Counseling Association Code of Ethics has myriad differences as well as the resemblances. This code of ethics main purpose is to offer protection to the profession, counselor, and the client. This paper aims at comparing and contrasting the two codes of ethics. The American Counseling Association Code of Ethics is the forerunner for setting down the ethical standards to be engaged in the counseling scope. Nevertheless, The American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC) has been introduced to give direction to counselors opting to incorporate the ...

(Define the 4th, 5th, 6th ans 14th amendment of the united states constitution and cite at least one case as it relates to interview and interrogation. when you cite any case you need to give the details of the case or as much information that you feel is necessary for one to understand what occurred)

Introduction

In Tarasoff v. The Regents of the University of California [S.F. No. 23042, Supreme Court of California, July 1, 1976], a ‘wrongful death’ action was filed against the Regents of the University of California hospital psychotherapists and campus policemen. The victim’s parents testified ...

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Gillick Competency Principle 4
Roles and responsibilities of nurses 5
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Ethical and Legal issue
This case study focuses on a minor girl who does not want her parents to know that she is pregnant. She is contemplating terminating the pregnancy via an abortion without consulting or seeking the consent of her parents.
According to the 2010 Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Bill, a minor is a person aged less than 18 years. The client in question, Chin Lee, is a minor because she is only 15 years old. In Western Australia, minors are governed by separate ...

Introduction

The case study is of a minor young girl who does not want her parents to know that she has become pregnant. She is considering an abortion and has already decided that whatever be her medical condition, she would provide consent on her own without any consultation with her parents.
According to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Bill 2010, a minor is a person who is less than 18 years. The client in question, Chin Lee is a minor since she is only 15 years old. However, there are separate rules and regulations for minors living in ...

1. Indian Council on Medical Research. Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research on Human Participants. New Delhi: Indian Council on Medical Research, 2006.
The source provides detailed guidelines for any biomedical research on Human subjects. The central principle in these guidelines is the protection of the human subjects as well as ensuring that they benefit from the results of the research. The guidelines also provides for informed consent by the subjects where possible as a mandatory requirement for research on human subjects. Although the guidelines were developed for research in India the ethical principles and issues regard to research involving ...

The term bioethics was coined in the early 1970s by biologists who brought to the public’s attention two pressing issues; the need to maintain the plant’s ecology and the implication of advances in the life sciences toward manipulating human nature. Van Rensselaer Potter has focused on the growing human ability to change the nature, including human nature and the implication of this for our global future [ CITATION Van71 \l 1033 ]. While bioethics has been interdisciplinary since its inception, theology played a fundamental role in its creation. It continues to have a profound influence today also.
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Introduction

The recent expansion of healthcare ethics to evidence based research practice aims to address patient safety issues surrounding medical treatment an intervention. The “nature, behaviour and consequences of patient safety incidents and their surrounding circumstances” are a longstanding concern, and one which has the potential to cost healthcare institutions exceptional levels of expenditure in medical malpractice damages.
The World Health Organization (WHO) policy outlined in Ethical Issues in Patient Safety: Interpreting Existing Guidance covers the framework to ethical practice in medicine (WHO, 2013). Research inquires directed at resolving ethical challenges in contemporary policy and procedure (i.e. informed consent), inform ...

Introduction:

A personal philosophy of ethical practice using core values and essential principles and practices for doctoral research in the field of education should encompass intent, practice and the final use of the materials. To conduct oneself ethically involves more than doing the right thing. Ethical conduct must include acting in the right spirit. Setting out with the right intent and obeying the rules is not sufficient, ethical conduct must also abiding respect and concern for other individuals.
Ethical conduct for doctoral research in the field of education is particularly sensitive and demanding. Unlike research undertaken for commercial purposes, education ...

Introduction

Some patients, especially those facing life-threatening illnesses, choose to avoid certain procedures or treatment or medication and may leave the hospital or clinic before they are treated. Regardless of this, it is the role of discharge staff to make sure that these patients are well-informed and that they are willing to pick a particular course of action by their own free will. Informed consent is based on the common law, which has the basic idea that all adult human beings have a right to determine what shall be done to their own bodies. Patient consent is the permission, which ...

Leadership refers not to the position or power of a person; it is a particular person’s relationship with his or her followers/community. Ethics is not focused on the individual; it is about an individual’s relationship with the people around him or her. Therefore, leadership ethics relies on the web of relationships within the community. Workers or followers will conduct their behavior based on what the leader shows them. The leader is the one who sets the standards in an organization, and his actions directly impact all those around him or her, creating the mood set in the ...

Introduction

In this report we discuss the requirement a project manager has to comply with before initiating a project. As we have found out, the government of New Zealand has championed for measures aimed towards conserving the environment. This is before the commencement and after the project. This was made to take place due to the fact that previous projects have proved to be carelessly detrimental to the environment. The Resource Management Act of 1991 includes one of the legal strategies that were laid to curb destruction of the environment.

Resource Consents

Before initiating any project, there are important things that one ...

Proposal for a Course of Action

Introduction
The patient, described as a ninety year old, depressed professor, was selected for the long-term care assistance analysis is evaluated for palliative care in a hospice environment (Cohen, 2006, 235). Benefits identified in recommendation of a hospice care setting include: 1) patient request for placement outside of home; due to 2) and inability to maintain the property. The latter issue relates to both financial distress and to everyday upkeep. The patient suffers from age related fatigue and blindness, and requires pharmaceutical administration, daily.
Social factors considered in the recommendation were defined by the patient. The patient has no ...

GENERAL ORIENTATION TO SAFETY MANAGEMENT

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Safety management within sports and health facilities are a crucial part of properly administering any area used for physical activity. The area in this case refers to the geographical zone, the facilities used and any person engaging in activity within the said locality. This paper analyses the 34 forms that are provided in Appendix B of the ACM’s Health and Fitness Facility Standards and Guidelines. Wave Health and Fitness Boston was chosen as the fitness entity on which the applicability of the 34 forms would be tested.

Introduction

In every health facility or sports environment there is a ...

Introduction

There are conditions in which medical treatment is provided either forcefully or without informed consent. There are plenty of such incidents arising with patients suffering from personality disorders, dementia and even with cancer treatment for non-consenting minors. There are some fundamental questions that arise regarding the existing law. A minor, who has little understanding and intelligence about the cancer treatment, cannot comprehend fully as to what is involved in their treatment. Anyone aged 16-17 is supposed to be deciding the consent for their treatment.
There was a case of a child patient who was severely mentally and physically disabled ...

Since the turn of the 21st century, and the emergence of a global knowledge sharing practice based in medicine, the increased attention to practitioner ethics has created an interdisciplinary focus on informed consent practice (Showalter). In most healthcare contexts, this topic is further refracted through the lens of medical malpractice liability and tortious negligence lawsuits (Hoey). Some countries also sustain social policies that may actually pose risk to patients; as in the case of fetal sex inquiries under China’s one child policy.
The importance of informed consent as a rule and as an ethical obligation to a duty ...

- In class we discussed how both rape and incest are “wrong.”
- When we say incest is wrong we’re really saying it’s “disgusting.”
- The problem with rape is lack of “consent.”
II. What about incest between an adult and a child? This is considered “statutory rape.”
A. In class, we focused mostly on adult incest, but we did say that one potential problem with incest in general is a lack of consent.

B. What makes kids unable to consent?

III. One major thing missing from our conversation about consent is mental acuity.
A. Perhaps part of the reason that we view incest ...

Imagine that you’re a prisoner on death row in China; it’s the day before you’re being executed. A few prison officials bring you into a room and sit you down at a table, with a crying woman on the other side. This woman, they explain to you, is the mother of a child who needs a kidney transplant of he will die. They want to use your kidney after you are executed. Upon first hearing this proposal, you are nervous and uncomfortable – you never agreed to have your organs harvested. However, they put a piece of ...

Environmental Effects

Environmental Effects: Resources Consent
Overview
The proposed quarry site is situated in an environmentally rich location. Exotic mature trees that are not native to its current ecosystem basically surround it; therefore, it was planted in the area to grow as newly adapting tree specie. In addition, sheep’s that are thriving in the grass growing in the Kanuka Hill presently grazes the land. Small bodies of water are presently home to small animals like small fish, birds and frogs at the surrounding wetlands and Kanuka stream. Furthermore, high concentration of vegetation and other plants are present in the location, ...

Meaningful research which can be applied in real life situations is based on ethical conduct of researchers. The researchers have a duty to protect the study participants and to maintain confidentiality. Considerations of ethical research include informed consent from the participants, privacy, confidentiality, anonymity, and beneficence (Fouka & Mantrozorou, 2011). This paper evaluates the case of Sarita Kudumula, 13, whose parents learned she was participating in a Human Papiloma Virus (HPV) vaccine clinical trial after she died.
HPV is a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. Various vaccines have been developed against the virus and most are tested in ...

John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government

Disproportionate and Unequal Possession of the Earth:
John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government

In John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government, Section 50 says that “by a tacit and voluntary consent,” men “have agreed to a disproportionate and unequal possession of the earth” (Locke, 1690, p. 19). Whether or not gold or money is a good representative of real wealth in goods or services and that man has made this tacit and consensual agreement for “disproportionate and unequal possession of the earth” is a debate that scholars continue to debate. Locke’s writing invites inquiry; his ideas concerning ...

Policies and Ethics in Healthcare

The Case of the Depressed Patient

The situation where patient R.L. is suffering from depression have rendered more complications to his overall health. But before persuading R.L. to agree to the medical procedures that he has to undergo, it is detrimental that his depression must be addressed first, otherwise, any persuasive efforts would render ineffective because of his depress condition. First thing first, is to analyze the causes of his depression and eradiate them one by one. The fact that his wife recently passed away, R.L. would have felt alone considering that his social behavior is weak and his ...

Introduction

Ethical issues in nursing research include informed consent. The institution review board ensures that researchers observe and uphold the requirements that govern their relationship with the participants. During research, although a nurse seeks to gather quality first-hand information, they must not compromise the rights of the participants and should provide all information regarding the same. Ethical concerns during nursing research involve identifying the gap between a nurse’s research objective and the participants` rights.

Ethical concerns

One ethical issue in nursing and the selected research project revolves around informed consent. Considering the principles of beneficence, justice, and autonomy that guide the ...

Introduction

The opposition by many ethicists towards the principle of medical paternalism is severely faulty. When analyzed keenly, such an approach is not beneficial at all. Alternatively, the best approach should be to regulate medical paternalism in a way that gives the patients autonomy at certain times and denies them the autonomy when it is necessary. It is crucial that patients are asked to consent or refuse to the medications that doctors administer to them. However, there are some situations whereby giving patients the opportunity or chance to give consent has no foreseeable positive outcomes. At times, the patients are ...

Sexual consent is a concept shrouded in mystery in modern times. It has become increasingly difficult to identify sexual acts guided by mutual consent by the partners’ involved, implied consent, and outright rape. Kate Harding in her article ‘How Rape in Pop Culture Became a Matter of Opinion’ holds the opinion that the notion of rape in pop culture depiction is diluted to the opinion of the individual. Cases of portrayed rape are left to the discretion of individual interpretation, thus, according to Harding, subjecting female victims of sexual assault to normalized abuse, in the face of popular opinion.
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Issues for Healthcare Organizations

Lesson 3:1- Antitrust
Lesson 3:2 - Health Information Management
Lesson 3:3 - Fraud, Abuse, and Corporate Compliance
Abstract
This document contains answers to lessons 3 units 1, 2, 3 pertaining to Issues for Healthcare Organizations. Unit 1 explores antitrust management; unit 2 - Health Information Management and unit 3 Fraud, Abuse, and Corporate Compliance.
Issues for Healthcare Organizations
Lesson 3:1- Antitrust

Question 1: Antitrust regulations - Sherman and Clayton Acts

- Mergers, consolidations and acquisition components of Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts like any other corporate legal intervention endorses regulations regarding purchasing; selling, dividing and combining with other companies that offer different or similar products and services. The ...

Police Officers

Purpose of the proposed research
Like all professions, the profession of a police officer is also bound by ethics. In the course of their duty, police officers face several ethical dilemmas, where they are required to take decisions. They are faced with the needs of the law on one hand and ethical codes based on judgment of right and wrong, on the other hand. Situations and circumstances may be different case to case and the strict application of a law would be inappropriate in certain cases. Compared to most other professional ethics, the police ethics are relatively underdeveloped. Police ...

International arbitration allows international business persons from different legal backgrounds to amicably solve their grievances. Parties to a contractual agreement or in an international relationship seek an impartial party who carries out the adjudicatory process. The resolution by the arbitrators is usually binding and carries a provision of arbitration in future contractual disputes. International Arbitration has over the last half century gained popularity because of the expeditious nature of the method. Businesses and international traders prefer international arbitration to the domestic legal process. A dispute would usually be handled under the judicial system under which the dispute occurred. Resolving ...

Introduction

Stem cell research has brought remarkable potential in cell growth in early life and growth. Stem cell offers the potential of addressing certain problems that humans face. The understanding of basic mechanisms of stem cell research aids human development and differentiation. Such an approach is vital in the treatment of diseases such as diabetes, spinal cord injury and other terminal illnesses (Lo and Parham, 2009). The stem cells research has generated many ethical research issues. Ethical debates on stem cell research continue to dominate the political scene.
One of the major issues relating to informed consent touches on the ...

- What does ‘characterization’ mean in environmental planning law and what effect does s.106 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) have in relation to this? (300 Words)
In environmental planning law, “characterization” refers to a set of procedures used for formulating and determining applications for land use development. At its minimum interpretation, characterization with respect to the development is centrally concerned with the location and allocation of development about its characteristics on the land. In this minimalist interpretation, the role of characterization is to provide a framework within which efficient criteria for formulating and enforcing regulatory ...

Ethical Issues in “Written Parental Consent and the Use of Incentives in a Youth Smoking Prevention Trial: A Case Study From Project SPLASH”

Although the potential ethical issues associated with this specific research seem minor, “worst-case scenario” risks to participants could include invasion of privacy, psychological trauma or emotional upset, embarrassment, stigma, peer pressure relating to the survey and discussion of confidential survey content and time costs.
The research also raised questions about the potential for coerciveness of students. A very large percentage of students whose parents completed the consent form by assenting that their child could participate in ...

Introduction

Ethics is the principal moral conduct which addresses issues which are perceive to infringe the rights of an individual. Ethics tries to define and guide us how an individual should live in a society in a harmony. It also tries to analyze the impacts of one’s behavior to others and its social consequence in the long run. It also compares what is moral one society and what is not in another society. This is because our societies are divergent what is accepted as moral in one society can be regarded as totally immoral in another society. A good ...

MSc Independent Engineering Scholarship (IES) Proposal

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This project is inspired by the need to utilize semi conductor technologies that have spiraled in the past decade to develop high efficient solar cell materials which are capable of utilizing higher degree spectrum light. The University of (University Name) Infrastructure development permitting the development of systems capable of measuring new solar cell performances has allowed the usage of a single chip with discrete components. The system is applicable in a host of functions including space, terrestrial and recycling of used Silicon wafers to produce solar cells.
The design consists of an easy circuit ...

Evidence Based Practice for Type 2 Diabetes in the United States

I. Introduction
Type 2 Diabetes is a prevalent chronic disease. It is currently the fastest growing disease in the world (Franz & Splett,2007).The health burden of diabetes as it currently stands is that the prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes is high among people aged above 25 (Narayan , et al., 2009). This segment of the demography is highly productive and dependable for the growth of the global economy (Narayan, et al., 2009). For every one person diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, there is one other person who goes undiagnosed.
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The word research can have many connotations and interpretations. Just reading a book, which states some facts, can be a kind of research also. It varies from subject to subject and is based on the objective of the researcher. In a broad sense any kind of work involved with collecting data or gathering information to gain more perspective on any given subject can be classified as research. When we focus only in the aspect of scientific research, Shuttleworth (2008) offers the definition of scientific research as, “ performing a methodical study in order to prove a hypothesis or answer a ...

Recorded assessment

I will critique my performance during the procedure of taking vital signs identifying the areas which were perfectly executed as well as those that need to be improved on. In this procedure, I measured the patient’s temperature, pulse and respirations.

Body

In preparation for the procedure, I gathered all the equipment that I needed except for a hanging watch. I was thus forced to keep turning to look at the wall clock which was to my back which was a bit distracting. I therefore failed to capitalize on the advantages of adequate preparations. Preparation of the equipment needed prior ...

Science has always relied on experimentation and research in trying to arrive at logical conclusion based on the results of such research. Clinical tests have always been performed on human and non-human subjects. Without thorough regulation in the industry, some researchers have used humans as test subjects, in some cases, against their will. Such cases were prevalent in mid 1900s when medical science was advancing at a very fast rate. However, these scientists did not value ethical concerns of the test subjects and thus these subjects faced inhuman conditions and in most cases died from the experimentation. There was ...

One of the more common themes in Hollywood is the notion that there is some secret authority network watching our movements and controlling what happens to us. The Matrix trilogy suggested that just about all of us were plugged into an artificial system of interaction that a shadowy Architect had put together, as a nefarious substitute for genuine existence. The Adjustment Bureau featured a series of agents of Fate who run around with Moleskine notebooks that automatically update as people move forward in time, trying to keep the Master Plan intact. We enjoy stories like these, in part because ...

Political legitimacy

Introduction
Political legitimacy is an example of a virtue relating to political institutions regarding the governing laws, policies and the candidates that aspire to hold political positions. In a narrow perspective, political legitimacy can be defined as the universal recognition of the governing law or regime and considering as authority. In this context, authority represents a political position that has been founded on an existing government. Legitimacy on the other hand signifies a system of government, which represents the sphere of influence. During the era of enlightenment, the aspect of political legitimacy is perceived as a fundamental pre-requisite for ...

The Name of the School

Introduction
Some people argue that to make important advances in clinical and scientific research, sometimes, ethical considerations have to be disregarded. In research, ethical issues are generally thought of as the set of rules that distinguish right from wrong. Ethics can take the form of a generalized rule of thumb, such as the “golden rule,” which says that you should not do to others what you would not like done to yourself; or, ethics can be codes of professional conduct, such as the Hippocratic Oath, which says “First of all, do no harm.” Researchers are usually legally bound to ...

Introduction

The US Constitution guarantees many of the rights of the individual citizens. One of the rights guaranteed is the right to peaceably assemble. The Bill of Rights states in part that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or the free exercise thereof [] or the right of the people to peaceably assemble” (First Amendment [emphasis added]). The 14th Amendment, on the other hand, ensures that states enforce this guarantee and all other civil rights guaranteed under the Constitution. The core issue in the present study is the right of the fans of Big Bad Bruce to ...

[Assignment No. 2]

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CRADA incorporates the agreement between the collaborators and IC in order to comply the research projects in order to develop the research entities with the collaboration of two entities. The current paper has enlightened the common and unique elements of the CRADA elements and it has been observed that CRADA provides the comprehensive means of developing the effective agreement between both the entities to ensure the collaboration and providing the astound means of carrying out the research project without adhering any unequal means of benefits provided to any entity. The ‘Cooperative Research and Development Agreement’ encompasses ...

Chapter 10: Sexuality

1) “Are the participants old enough to consent?” In other words, has the person reached the statutory “age of consent,” which is the minimum legal age someone must be to have sex.
- The age of consent is the minimum age an individual is considered to be legally competitive to engage in sexual activity.
- In many nations it is the age at which there is no restriction for sexual relationship.
- The laws for determining the age of consent vary significantly across nations.
- Some jurisdiction set their consent age in relation to the gender, position of the ...

Introduction

The US citizens’ protection quest resulted to the enactment of the Fourth Amendment to the US constitution. The amendment was purposely brought to congress by James Madison on the grounds that the, the US people have the right of security in their houses, papers, persons and effects against unreasonable seizures and searches. This generally protected what could be reasonably considered to be private as in accordance with the law and the expectations of the US citizens (The Bill of Rights and Beyond,). The Amendment further provides that any warrant for conducting search and seizure citizens must be sanction and ...

White slavery and child prostitution scandals eruption in Victorian England and other Western nations and what their attitudes towards the age of consent tell us about Victorian society
Child prostitution was synonymous with child labour during the Victorian period. Despite its wide acceptance, the civil society put in more efforts to rescue the girl child from sexual assault. As realised from the articles presented, girls mostly at the age of fifteen found themselves in the streets after escaping mistreatment from their masters and mistresses. The fact that younger girls and mostly below the age of twelve years were preferred ...

Abolishing the Concept of Voidable Marriage

Introduction
The institution of marriage is protected not only as a societal norm but also as an institution of the law. Family law essentially captures the legal connotations that marriage implies on persons and institutions. The concept of voidable marriages sits comfortably under the purview of marriages and is guided by a body of statutes with the overriding objective usually being the provision of fairness to both parties. The law suffices for man and its ideal purpose is to provide justice and fairness to all without fear or favour. Statutes in relation to marriages inherently showcase the same spirit ...

Having read this post regarding informed consent and confidentiality, the author has mentioned two grey areas regarding the topic. The first grey area mentioned is the issue of clients and therapists not thoroughly reviewing and ensuring a cooperative understanding of a consent form, especially when language barriers are involved. The second grey area discussed is a client’s lack of understanding of the limits of confidentiality, especially when it comes to issues involving abuse or harm to others.

These are both important issues to consider, but rather than mention them as two separate grey areas, consider how these issues ...

Introduction

The role of a professional code of ethics and personal values can cause difficulty in the counseling profession. Counselors need to clearly define their own personal values and be aware of how these values could possibly affect their treatment of patients who may have differing values. The Code of Ethics that is provided by the American Counseling Association (2014) provides the professional framework for the collective morals of the counseling profession. The code even addresses the role of values within the code. The framework for practice, research, supervision and record keeping are all provided in the code of ethics. ...

Informed Consent in Psychotherapy

Qualitative content analysis, as described in several works of literature, show contradictory opinions and unsettled issues concerning meaning and the use of interpretation procedures and concepts. The work provides a summary of key concepts. They include abstraction, manifest, latent content, content area, unit of analysis, theme, meaning unit, code, condensation, and category. The key concept are associated with Psychotherapy practice. The concept or understanding of the Informed Consent in Psychotherapy is interpreted using the article Informed Consent in Psychotherapy by John O. Beahrs, M.D and Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D.
In the above abstract, the authors did not include a ...

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The Flitland Crown Court convicted Dr. Arthur Jones for the crime of murder for withdrawal of life-support treatment to premature-born Baby X. Prior to his conviction, Dr. Jones did not dispute the antecedent facts that led to the death of Baby X. He reasoned out that the offense was committed to give way for the more viable Baby Y. There was only one available life-support system, and the question was, to whom he should administer the life-support treatment, to less viable Baby X or to more viable Baby Y?
Dr. Jones’ treatment to ...

Analysis of Ethical Dilemma

Analysis of Ethical Dilemma: Embryo Harvesting, Freezing and Genetic Manipulation – A Case of Posthumous Conception
Introduction
Nursing practice has evolved greatly from just offering care to patients who are physically sick to include family and community care. Technology has enhanced nursing practice and made possible things that seemed impossible years back. For instance it is now possible to preserve fertility through semen cryopreservation in which sperms are harvested and stored in frozen form. Such sperms can be thawed and used for artificial insemination. While such technological developments have many applications, they have many unresolved ethical issues that limit their ...