Cross-Cultural and Religious Critiques of Informed Consent

Introduction (Joseph Tham); Part I: Multiculturalism and relational autonomy; 1. Ethical Issues Concerning Informed Consent in Translational/Clinical Research (Alberto Garcia Gomez and Mirko Daniel Garasic); 2. Informed Consent and Minors in a Multicultural Society (Mirko Daniel Garasic and Fabio Macioce); 3. Community Engagement in the Informed Consent Process in Global Clinical Research: International Recommendations and Guidelines (Margherita Daverio); 4. Family and Healthcare Decision Making: Cultural Shift from the Individual to the Relational Self (Joseph Tham and Marie Catherine Letendre); Part II: Religious perspectives on informed consent; 5. Informed Consent: A Critical Response from a Buddhist Perspective (Ellen Y. Zhang); 6. A Confucian View of Informed Consent in Biomedical Practice (Ruiping Fan); 7. Hindu Norms on Human Experimentation: Parsing Classical Texts (John Lunstroth); 8. Informed Consent and Clinical Trials: A Jewish Perspective (David Heyd); 9. Christian Perspectives on Informed Consent (Laura Palazzani); 10. Fitting Informed Consent onto an Islamic Moral Landscape and within Muslim Contexts (Aasim I. Padela)