Informed Consent, Proxy Consent, and Catholic Bioethics For the Good
This work offers a comprehensive understanding rooted in Catholic anthropology and moral theory of the meaning and limits of informed and proxy consent to experimentation on human subjects. In particular, it seeks to articulate the rationale for proxy con
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Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME 112 Founding Co-Editor Stuart F. Spicker
Senior Editor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Associate Editor Lisa M. Rasmussen, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina
CATHOLIC STUDIES IN BIOETHICS Series Founding Co-Editors John Collins Harvey, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Francesc Abel, Institut Borja de Bioetica, Center Borja, Barcelona, Spain Series Editor Christopher Tollefsen, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Editorial Advisory Board Joseph Boyle, St. Michael’s College, Toronto, Canada Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, U.S.A. Thomas Cavanaugh, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. Mark Cherry, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, U.S.A. Ana Smith Iltis, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, U.S.A.
INFORMED CONSENT, PROXY CONSENT, AND CATHOLIC BIOETHICS For the Good of the Subject by GRZEGORZ MAZUR, O.P. Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology, Kraków, Poland
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Grzegorz Mazur, O.P. Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology Stolarska 12 31-043 Kraków Poland [email protected]
ISSN 0376-7418 ISBN 978-94-007-2195-1 e-ISBN 978-94-007-2196-8 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-2196-8 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011935463 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
It is a pleasure and a privilege to write this Foreword. Father Mazur’s study not only offers a study of value for “Catholic” bioethics but also one of great significance for contemporary bioethics as such. The problem that he explores is one with which I have wrestled since 1976 when I wrote “Proxy Consent to Human Experimentation” for The Linacre Quarterly stimulated several responses, and I developed the argument advanced in my 1977 book Human Existence, Medicine, and Ethics. I was compelled much later, because of what I came to realize were valid objections to my position, to change it significantly. Because of my long interest in this issue I thought that I had a good grasp of relevant literature. The truly amazing research that Father Mazur carried out in writing this superlative study showed me how ignorant I was of very important contributions to this literature. Mazur had in fact set forth accurately and brilliantly criticized all of the most important positions held by bioethicists on this matter. His examination, for example
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