The Need for Informed Consent: Lessons from the Ancient Greeks
Some time ago, Ian Kennedy asked whether consent wasthe great bulwark of “patient's rights”? Is it a necessary nuisance granted as a concession to modish thinking? Is it simply a figment of some lawyer's (or—awful word—medical ethicist's) imagination which practitioners know is meanin...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2006
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2006, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 152-160 |
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| Summary: | Some time ago, Ian Kennedy asked whether consent wasthe great bulwark of “patient's rights”? Is it a necessary nuisance granted as a concession to modish thinking? Is it simply a figment of some lawyer's (or—awful word—medical ethicist's) imagination which practitioners know is meaningless in practice? Is it just part of the rhetoric of “patient power”, sent to try doctors' patience and challenge their authority?I thank Professor Matti Häyry for his extremely perceptive and helpful comments, which have added much to this paper. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2147 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S096318010606018X |