CONCEPT AND PRACTICE OF INFORMED CONSENT: AN ANALYSIS OF COURT DECISIONS OF THE RIO DE JANEIRO STATE COURT OF JUSTICE

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes Jr., Dalmir
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Opinião Jurídica (Fortaleza)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unichristus.edu.br/opiniaojuridica/article/view/2941
• topic: Informed consent; Autonomy; Doctor-patient relationship; Medical decision making; Consentimiento informado; Autonomía; Relación médico-paciente; Toma de decisiones médicas; Biodireito; Bioética; Responsabilidade Civil; Consentimento informado; Autonomia; Relação médico-paciente; Tomada de decisão médica

Informed consent is a concept resulting from the transformations that occurred in the relationship between doctors and patients throughout the twentieth century. The main change occurred with the overcoming of the Hippocratic paradigm of medicine by another that privileges the patients’ right of self-determination. Although there is not yet a law that provides for this institute in the country, it is already recognized by the case law. The incorporation of this concept by legal thought reveals a new understanding for the doctor-patient relationship. Inthis article we seek to discuss the nature of informed consent, exposing its requirements and application limits. For this, besides theoretical references about the notion, we also expose a research about the applicability of the concept from the court decisions of the State of Rio de Janeiro between 2002 and 2016, in order to expose how the process judice has contributed to the consolidation of the patient’s right to self-determination, as well as the difficulties that still need to be overcome.