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The human being represents the basis of the society's existence and all the associated issues represent the fundament for the ethical-medical, administrative, legal or political norms.The exercise of the rights of personal protection of life and health are not and cannot be susceptible to restrictive interpretations by modulation or by various normative changes. Based on the natural and constitutional right and on legal norms, in modern society there is a fully confirmed respect for private and family life, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, the right to expression, meeting and association, prohibition of discrimination based on genetic heritage and the human genome, appropriate use of medically assisted procreation techniques or consent for the conduct of scientific research on human subjects.In this context, the informed consent represents the decision of every competent person in order to benefit from or to refuse a certain therapy, to take part or not to take part in a test which might affect his or her health condition after having received, understood and analysed the necessary information and having made his or her choice without being subjected to coercion, influence, induction or intimidation.
Keywords: informed consent, ethics, medical communication, abuse typology, beneficence.
1.HISTORICAL LANDMARKS
Through its dynamic, science may belong to "light" or, to "the dark." In the hands of some people who are only interested in power, science may become an untamed beast, possessive, dominant, frequently destructive in its relationship with individual freedom or the good of the society. Science applied beyond reason invades all fields and becomes supracultural, kills all imaginary beliefs and may statue itself in the ascendent of ethics, placing doubt and even completely changing the moral fundaments and principles.
Research in the area of the sciences of life is necessary in order to ensure the progress of humanity which represents and will continue to represent a fundamental motor vector of social dynamics. At first, illness research on human subjects took place based on traditional empiric procedures or based on certain scientific principles, but this area of preoccupations benefited from normative regulations starting from the 20th century, laws initiated as a matter of priority by the US. The first norms conditioned the development of experiments on the prior use of medicine on animals, human subjects...