Informed consent: a primer for clinical practice
"The process of seeking the consent of a patient to a medical procedure is, arguably, one of the most important skills a doctor, or indeed any clinician, should learn. In fact, the very idea that doctors may institute diagnostic or treatment processes of any sort without a patient's consent is utterly counter-intuitive to the modern practice of medicine. It was not always thus, and even now it can be reliably assumed that consent is still not sought and gained appropriately in every clinical en…
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- Full title :Informed consent : a primer for clinical practice / Deborah Bowman, John Spicer, Rehana Iqbal.
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"The process of seeking the consent of a patient to a medical procedure is, arguably, one of the most important skills a doctor, or indeed any clinician, should learn. In fact, the very idea that doctors may institute diagnostic or treatment processes of any sort without a patient's consent is utterly counter-intuitive to the modern practice of medicine. It was not always thus, and even now it can be reliably assumed that consent is still not sought and gained appropriately in every clinical encounter. To say that it should be sought and gained in this manner elevates the value of consent to a high level. It can be instructive to ask oneself why such a value might be held to be the case. The answer to this question lies in the philosophical underpinning of clinical consent, which sits within a notion of personal autonomy, and respect for autonomous decision making"--
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- Publication Date:2012.
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- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
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- Description:99 pages : : illustrations ; : 19 cm.
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- ISBN:9781107688063, 110768806X
- oclc:ocn731127513
- LC Classification:R724
- Dewey Decimal:610
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to clinical consent: laying out the territory -- 2. On capacity: can the patient decide? -- 3. Putting the informed into consent: information and decision-making -- 4. Voluntariness: the freedom to choose -- 5. Continuing consent: does the patient still agree? The continuing nature of consent -- 6. Concluding thooughts on consent.
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