CONSENT TO TREATMENT AND OTHER MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS: LEGISLATIVE AND SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES

The aim: To research approaches to maintaining balance between social and personal interests in the sphere of human right to consent to medical interventions.

Materials and methods: The research is conducted with help of both general and special juridical methods of investigation. The empirical basis: an international legal acts; domestic laws of EU countries, the USA and other states; courts' decisions; statistics; juridical and medical articles.

Conclusions: Consent to medical interventions is an absolute right of mentally capable adults and restriction of this right is never too necessary for social interest except for limiting measures due to pandemic or psychiatric disorders threaten. Next of kin or guardian has the right to consent for minors or mentally disabled in their best interests.