Author
Mega, Ertunç
Publication Date
2019
Subject
Health law, Patient rights, Turkey's health legislation, Informed consent, Patient physician contractual relationship
Type
Periodical
Language
Turkish
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Record ID
ca06f7a8-de59-45a1-8f59-a61b7e73129f
Date
2019
Sample Text
The declaration of will, which is the first condition of a medical intervention and ensures the establishment of the contract between the patient and the physician, is called "Informed Consent" in English, which is approximately twenty times more effective than Turkish in terms of impact factor. Although this term has different expressions in the Turkish health and legal system, "Informed Consent" is the most frequently used phrase.
Terms are words that name concepts. When searching for Turkish equivalents for foreign terms, not only the dictionary meaning of the word that refers to the concept, but also the concept itself should be taken into consideration. In Turkishization studies, finding different equivalents for words of foreign language origin by more than one institution or person, or if a term is interpreted by more than one word by the same institution, will lead to conceptual confusion in that branch of science.
In our article, the issue of the use of the term "Informed Consent", which has an important function in every respect, by being translated into Turkish in different ways, will be examined by determining how the words used find a place in the Turkish legal system., The declaration of intent, which is the primary condition of medical intervention that enables a contract to be established between the patient and physician, is described as "Informed Consent" in the English language, which is about twenty times more effective than Turkish in terms of impact factor. Even though the same phrasal meaning can be conveyed using various terms in Turkish health and legal systems, “Enlightened Onam" is the most oft-used conception.
Simply put, a term is a word that expresses a concept. In order to propose a corresponding term in Turkish, not only the lexical definition of the phrase that describes a concept but also the meaning of the concept itself should be taken into account. In the process of establishing equivalent terms in Turkish, when personal or juridical legal entities assign different native words to the same foreign term, or if an intra-organizational discrepancy exists, an issue of comprehensibility within the scientific field would most certainly arise.
In this study, we will discuss various Turkish descriptions for the term “Informed Consent”, which boasts such broad and vital functions, by determining connotations the assigned words have within Turkish legislation.
