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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction
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The Sources of a Model of Informed Consent
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About this book
The purpose of this book is to defuse this seemingly intractable controversy by offering an efficient and effective operational model of informed consent. This goal is pursued first by reviewing and evaluating, in detail, the agendas, arguments, and supporting materials of its proponents and detractors. A comprehensive review of empirical studies of informed consent is provided, as well as a detailed reflection on the common clinician experience with attempts at informed consent and the exercise of autonomy by patients.
In the end, informed consent is recast as a management tool for pursuing clinically and ethically important goods and values that any clinician should see as meriting pursuit. Concurrently, the model incorporates a flexible, anticipatory approach that recognizes that no static, generic ritual can legitimately pursue the quite variable goods and values that may be at stake with different patients in different situations. Finally, efficiency of provision is addressed by not pursuing the unattainable and ancillary. Throughout, the traditional principle of beneficence is appealed to toward articulating an operational model of informed consent as an intervention that is likely to change outcomes at the bedside for the better.
Reviews
The Journal of Medical Humanities, 16:2, 1995
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Informed Consent
Book Subtitle: Patient Autonomy and Physician Beneficence within Clinical Medicine
Authors: Stephen Wear
Series Title: Clinical Medical Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8122-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2029-6Published: 31 December 1992
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4219-4Published: 09 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8122-6Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0926-969X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 169
Topics: Ethics, Medical Law