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- Informed Consent: Patient Autonomy and Clinician Beneficence within Health Care, Second Edition
- Book
- 1998
- Published by: Georgetown University Press
summary
Wear develops an efficient and flexible model of informed consent that accommodates both clinical realities and legal and ethical imperatives. In this second edition, he has expanded his examination of the larger process within which informed consent takes place and his discussion of the clinician's need for a wide range of discretion.
Table of Contents
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- Preface to the Second Edition
- pp. ix-xii
- Acknowledgments
- p. xiii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- Part I: The Sources of a Model of Informed Consent
- 2. The New Ethos of Patient Autonomy
- pp. 29-48
- Part II: A Model of Informed Consent
- 6. The Informed Consent Event
- pp. 100-125
- 7. The Issue of Competence
- pp. 126-155
- 8. Exceptions to Informed Consent
- pp. 156-170
- 9. Concluding Remarks
- pp. 171-180
- References and Suggested Readings
- pp. 181-196
Additional Information
ISBN
9781589013469
Related ISBN(s)
9780878407064
MARC Record
OCLC
1017609709
Pages
224
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-03
Language
English
Open Access
No