In a significant blow to patient autonomy, informed consent has been quietly revoked just 77 years after it was codified in the Nuremberg Code.
On the 21st of December 2023, as we were frantically preparing for the festive season, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration issued a final ruling to amend a provision of the 21st Century Cures Act.
Overturning patient-informed consent was another stated goal of the original Act.
Scholars of medical history understand that the concept of informed consent, something we all take for granted today, is a relatively new phenomenon codified in its modern understanding as one of the critical principles of the Nuremberg Code in 1947.
In asymmetrical power relationships such as clinician/patient, it is understood that the passive subject will comply with the rulings and mandates of their medical masters.
This Act encourages these novel and high-risk programs, with medical studies approved as 'minimal risk' by the regulators no longer requiring researchers and pharmaceutical companies to obtain patient consent.
No doubt the infrastructure to implement this decree is already being constructed by the same groupthink cultists responsible for the nightmarish pandemic lockdowns, continuing to place the pursuit of profit and the greater good above individual choice, bodily autonomy, and informed consent.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-era-of-informed-consent-is-over/
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