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Does Information And Agreement Equal Informed Consent?, Carl E. Schneider, Michael H. Farrell
Does Information And Agreement Equal Informed Consent?, Carl E. Schneider, Michael H. Farrell
Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)
The following essay is based on a talk delivered last summer in England and on the chapter "Information, Decisions, and the Limits of Informed Consent," in (Michael Freeman and Andrew D. E. Lewis, eds.) Law and Medicine: Current Legal Issues 2000, Volume 3 (Oxford University Press, 2000). This version appears with permission of the publisher.
For many years, a principal labor of bioethics has been to find a way of confiding medical decisions to patients and not to doctors. The foremost mechanism for doing so has been the doctrine of informed consent. Anxious as bioethicists and courts have been to …