CONTENTS. Table of cases. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Informed choice of medical services: Still a problem? 2. Informed choice: Legal doctrine or ethical concept? 3. Medicine: Beneficience or enlightened self-interest? 4. The clinical encounter: Protecting…
"This work is a uniquely multi-disciplinary contribution to the existing bioethical literature on the topic of informed choice of medical services. It is also the first comprehensive bioethical text to confront the central issue of power in the clinical encounter, and to argue f…