Property Rights, Privacy, and Informed Consent
Discusses ethical issues related to the use of saliva in diagnostic testing; based on an article in the Journal of the American College of Dentists. (1 credit hour)
Learning Objectives
After completing the course, participants will be able to:
- Identify the patient, researcher, and societal interests in oral tissues as potential diagnostic and therapeutic resources
- Define the issues involved with privacy and confidentiality in informed consent
- Discuss and use the characteristics of “ownership of a body part”
- Frame adequate informed consent in the case of experimental treatment or research involving the harvesting of oral tissues
Please Review the Following Article:
Property Rights, Privacy, and Informed Consent
Reference
Anthony Vernillo, Jos V.M. Welie, Sudeshni Naidoo, and Daniel Malamud, The Challenges of Oral-based Diagnostics in Extending the Role of Dentistry as a Health Care Profession: Property Rights, Privacy, and Informed Consent, Journal of the American College of Dentists, 2011, 78(3), 33-40.