Informed Consent Essay

What is informed consent? And why is informed consent something so hard to grasp and to portray to a participant of an environmental physiological study? Or any study for that matter. Informed consent has many different things that need to be fulfilled for it to be obtained. Voluntary consent is an absolute necessity, the subject must have the legal capacity to consent, and the subject must be able to make the choice, free of deceit, coercion or intervention of force. They should have sufficient knowledge and understanding of the study. When informed consent is given the researcher must announce his role as the researcher and what this entails, their topic of research in layman’s terms so the subject has a correct understanding, and thirdly announce the future of the research, lastly announce any safety concerns, this may be tricks as
A study may be asked to participate in a cold experiment without a deep body thermometer. Although the student is aware of the dangers in the study, many may feel immune to what is to come, because they have a greater understanding of the study and topic at hand. Informed consent may also be seen an issue during double blind studies. How can the groups of subjects give proper informed consent when they are unaware if they are in a control group taking a placebo for example, or if they are in the group taking a certain medication? Maybe in extreme cases the public’s right to know outweighs the unethical methodology. These issues and points also show a great deal of ways certain subjects can be exploited. In the reading it is stated that a pharmaceutical company gave women on birth control a placebo without telling them in a covert study, subsequently some of these women then fell pregnant. So during double blind studies and covert studies informed consent can be very exploitative to certain groups of