Must Consent Be Informed? Patient rights, state authority, and the moral basis of the physician’s duties of disclosure

, abstract:, Legal standards of disclosure in a variety of jurisdictions require physicians to inform patients about the likely consequences of treatment, as a condition for obtaining the patient’s consent. Such a duty to inform is special insofar as extensive disclosure of risks and potential benef...

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Main Author: MacDougall, D. Robert (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 2021
In: Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal
Year: 2021, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 247-270
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