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Taking a course in Medical Ethics |
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Written by googirama
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Monday, 10 October 2005 |
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Current Mood - Thoughful
Current Music - Godzuko - Your Future
In preparation for my new job at Emory - essentially working on some
charts for a clinical study and some minor DB work associated with that
I have to take a few online classes. For the remainder of this week
I'll be taking the basic CITI (courses in the protection of human
research subjects) materials and possibly some others. I'm excited! It
sure beats reading articles on SQL server security holes.
Believe
it or not, this actually pays more than the school system job and it's
a lot closer to home. Maybe I can even snag a MARTA card of them - who
knows.
But here's a funny part from the module I was doing this
morning. I've known for a long time that SEVERAL people I know are NOT
capable of self determination - and this just proves it.
"An
autonomous person is an individual capable of deliberation about
personal goals and of acting under the direction of such deliberation.
To respect autonomy is to give weight to autonomous persons' considered
opinions and choices while refraining from obstructing their actions
unless they are clearly detrimental to others. To show lack of respect
for an autonomous agent is to repudiate that person's considered
judgments, to deny an individual the freedom to act on those considered
judgments, or to withhold information necessary to make a considered
judgment, when there are no compelling reasons to do so.
However,
not every human being is capable of self-determination. The capacity
for self-determination matures during an individual's life, and some
individuals lose this capacity wholly or in part because of illness,
mental disability, or circumstances that severely restrict liberty.
Respect for the immature and the incapacitated may require protecting
them as they mature or while they are incapacitated."
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