Biomedical research involving patients with disorders of consciousness: ethical and legal dimensions

The directive 2001/20/UE and the research involving patients with docs. Research involving patients with disorders of consciousness (DOCs) deserves special ethical and legal attention because of its Janus-faced nature. On the one hand, it raises concerns about the risk to expose the involved subject...

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Main Authors: Michele Farisco, Kathinka Evers, Carlo Petrini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Istituto Superiore di Sanità 2014-09-01
Series:Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0021-25712014000300004&lng=en&tlng=en