Therapeutic treatment and the false logic of consensus

Authors

  • Sandra Regina Martini UniRitter; UFRGS
  • Virginia Zambrano University of Salerno

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/rechtd.2017.92.07

Abstract

The legal nature of the consent for medical treatment is analyzed in a comparative perspective between the Italian and Brazilian experiences from the evidence of their analogies and differences. The debate developed on the topic has raised the attention that, in both cases, the respective legal systems are directed to the autonomy of the patient. But in Italy, unlikely to what occurs in Brazil, normative definitions offer significant openings to the freedom of choice of the patient, who may also choose not to be treated. In contrast, the Brazilian system brings respect to life as a basilar principle, imposing on the physician to intervene, thus limiting the patient’s proclaimed autonomy.

Keywords: Medical-surgical activity, patient autonomy, dignity, consent by medical act.

Author Biographies

Sandra Regina Martini, UniRitter; UFRGS

Graduada em Ciências Sociais pela Unisinos, mestre em Educação pela PUCRS, doutora em Evoluzione dei Sistemi Giuridici e Nuovi Diritti pela Università Degli Studi di Lecce. Pós-doutorado em Direito (Roma Tre, 2006) e Pós-doutorado em Políticas Públicas (Universidade de Salerno, 2010). Pesquisadora Produtividade 2 CNPq, professora do Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis (Uniritter), professora-visitante no programa de pós-graduação em Direito da UFRGS (PPGD), avaliadora do Basis do Ministério da Educação e Cultura e do Basis do Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira. Parecerista ad hoc CNPq e CAPES. Conferencista no Brasil e no exterior. Tem experiência na área de Direito, com ênfase em sociologia jurídica, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: Saúde Pública, Políticas Públicas, Sociologia Jurídica e Sociedade e Direitos Humanos.

Virginia Zambrano, University of Salerno

- 1992 PhD in Civil Law. - 1992 Researcher for the sector N01X, University of Salerno, Faculty of Law. - 1996 carried out the option (at the time required by law) for the sector N02X, where she has been taken, with DR n. 3702 of 13.06.1996.

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Published

2017-11-14

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2017): May/August

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