Biomaterial Database

Torts--informed consent--an involuntarily confined mental patient cannot give informed consent to experimental psychosurgery. 1974

Annina M Dahm

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007258	Informed Consent	Voluntary authorization, by a patient or research subject, with full comprehension of the risks involved, for diagnostic or investigative procedures, and for medical and surgical treatment.	Consent, Informed
D007326	Institutionalization	The caring for individuals in institutions and their adaptation to routines characteristic of the institutional environment, and/or their loss of adaptation to life outside the institution.	Institutionalized Persons,Institutionalizations,Institutionalized Person,Person, Institutionalized,Persons, Institutionalized
D011612	Psychosurgery	Treatment of chronic, severe and intractable psychiatric disorders by surgical removal or interruption of certain areas or pathways in the brain, especially in the prefrontal lobes.	Gyrectomy,Leucotomy,Leukotomy,Lobotomy,Topectomy,Gyrectomies,Leucotomies,Leukotomies,Lobotomies,Psychosurgeries,Topectomies
D012108	Research Personnel	Those individuals engaged in research.	Clinical Investigator,Clinical Investigators,Researchers,Investigator, Clinical,Investigators,Investigators, Clinical,Survey Personnel,Investigator,Personnel, Research,Personnel, Survey,Researcher
D003068	Coercion	The use of force or intimidation to obtain compliance.
D004995	Ethics, Professional	The principles of proper conduct concerning the rights and duties of the professional, relations with patients or consumers and fellow practitioners, as well as actions of the professional and interpersonal relations with patient or consumer families. (From Stedman, 25th ed)	Professional Ethics,Ethic, Professional,Professional Ethic
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D006805	Human Experimentation	The use of humans as investigational subjects.	Human Research Subject Protection,Experimentation, Human
D001519	Behavior	The observable response of a man or animal to a situation.	Acceptance Process,Acceptance Processes,Behaviors,Process, Acceptance,Processes, Acceptance
D028642	Mentally Ill Persons	Persons with psychiatric illnesses or diseases, particularly psychotic and severe mood disorders.	Mental Patients,Mentally Ill,Ill, Mentally,Mentally Ill Person,Person, Mentally Ill,Persons, Mentally Ill