is there a rape scene in...? Unconsenting Media aims to provide the public with the information they need to make informed choices about their media consumption.
The policy and procedures setting out how the University will manage issues such as data governance, consent and security when developing and operating learning analytics systems.
In the last couple of years, several new biobanks have been established to enable the study of health developments of people and their families over their entire lifetime. This paper reviews the legal and ethical implications of a loss of decision-making capacity by research subjects in long-term research associated with large biobanks.
Typically anorexia nervosa is diagnosed as a condition of teenage girls where the rates of mortality and morbidity are very high and recovery rates very low. This chapter discusses the condition as experienced in Australia by older women who have either lived with anorexia during adolescence and as young women or who have been diagnosed later in life. The discussion traverses issues of consent to treatment or its refusal, capacity to provide consent, and the application of human right protections arising from various human rights instruments.
This article critically evaluates the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s announcement, in March 2008, that GlaxoSmithKline would not face prosecution for deliberately withholding trial data, which revealed not only that Seroxat was ineffective at treating childhood depression but also that it increased the risk of suicidal behaviour in this patient group. The decision not to prosecute followed a four and a half year investigation and was taken on the grounds that the law at the relevant time was insufficiently clear. This article assesses the existence of significant gaps in the duty of candour which had been assumed to exist between drugs companies and the regulator, and reflects upon what this episode tells us about the robustness, or otherwise, of the UK’s regulation of medicines.
The notion of "consent" is frequently referred to as "informed consent" to emphasise the informational component of a valid consent. This article considers aspects of that informational component. One misuse of the language of informed consent is highlighted. Attention is then directed to some features of the situation in which consent would not have been offered had certain information been disclosed. It is argued that whether or not such consent is treated as sufficiently informed must, from a moral point of view, take account of four conditions. When these are applied to the operation of consent in relation to criminal responsibility for HIV transmission, the approach in some recent cases is shown to be morally questionable.
P. Prinsloo, and S. Slade. Learning Analytics in Higher Education: Current Innovations, Future Potential, and Practical Applications, Routledge, New York and Abingdon, Oxon, (August 2018)