Community, Autonomy and Informed Consent ─ Revisiting the Philosophical Foundation for Informed Consent in International Research

Pamela J. Lomelino is a Philosophy Professor at Loyola University, Chicago, where she teaches courses in Healthcare Ethics, Philosophy of Medicine, and Feminist Philosophy. She received her PhD in Philosophy and a Women and Gender Studies certificate from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research interest is analyzing the relationship between autonomy and informed consent in medical research and clinical medicine, and exploring ways to improve the informed consent process in various medical contexts in order to better ensure autonomous decision-making, especially for more vulnerable persons.