Safia Bibi.
Consenting process in clinical trials.
J Pak Med Assoc Jan ;65(3):388-40.

Informed consent is a basic ethical requirement in biomedical research involving human subjects. It drives its value from the basic principle of ethics that human beings are autonomous agents and we ought to respect their autonomy i.e. self-ownership.1 Informed consent in human subject research is therefore designed as a mean to show respect to the autonomy of research participants allowing them to make a free choice regarding participation in research.

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