Consent. Modern interpretation: "Voluntary Informed Consent"

Abstract

The article is devoted to voluntary informed consent. It considers the historical issues of the formation of this concept in modern health care and medical science. The article highlights a historical role of the Nuremberg Code which was taken as the basis for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the World Medical Association (WMA) Code of Ethics, the Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, i.e. documents that defined the world order after the end of World War II.

Keywords

• voluntary informed consent
• code of ethics
• world medical association (wma)
• declarations on bioethics and human rights