THE INFORMED CONSENT OF THE PATIENT IN THE SOVIET SYSTEM OF HEALTH CARE: FROM ETHICAL THEORY TO MEDICAL PRACTICE

• Main Authors: Olesya Vladimirovna Pyzhova, Tatyana Aleksandrovna Chaltseva
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Science and Innovation Center Publishing House 2018-11-01
• Series: Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem
• Subjects: теория согласия; информированное согласие; пациент; врач; профессиональные обязанности; медицинское вмешательство; врачебная этика; уголовная ответственность; правовое регулирование
• Online Access: http://journal-s.org/index.php/mrsp/article/view/10991

Purpose. In article authors put the task to track process of transformation of the informed voluntary consent of the patient to medical intervention of the ethical theory in legal practice in a domestic health care system since the Soviet period to the present as the harmony of universal values and precepts of law can regulate at the same time not only behavior of the person within professional ethics, but also development of medical science. Methodology. To studying of this problem it was applied dialectic and comparative-historical methods of a research. Results. During the carried-out analysis of introduction in medical practice of the theory of the informed consent on a debatable basis in public and medical circles and also on the basis of consideration of the standard precepts of law regulating relationship the doctor patient in domestic medicine of the 20th century, authors have come to a conclusion about what, having got the first experience of legal regulation of the practician of consent of the patient to medical intervention only in modern Russia has been brought into accord with the international standards. Practical implications. Results of a research can find application not only in the field of bioethics and the medical right in medical and legal higher education institutions in the course of training, but also to become the basis for a separate study on the study and improvement of the legal framework of informed voluntary consent of the patient in the development of modern health care system.