Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research

by Philip Bielby

Book Overview

Acknowledgments; Contents; Main abbreviations; Note on the text; Introduction; Chapter One; Five concepts of competence;Agency competence; Task competence;Societal competence;Decisional competence;Risk-relative (asymmetrical) competence;Decision-relative competence;Legal competence;First sense of legal competence (first person contemporaneous legal competence);Second sense of legal competence (delegable legal competence);Third sense of legal competence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402086032
• ISBN13: 9781402086038
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"