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Informed Consent In The Post-Modern Era, Wendy K. Mariner
Informed Consent In The Post-Modern Era, Wendy K. Mariner
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The doctrine of informed consent' is intended to get physicians to talk to their patients so that patients can make reasonably knowledgeable choices about whether to undergo particular forms of medical care. Although the law has long prohibited treatment without the patient's consent,2 physicians have resisted the idea that treatment decisions ultimately are for the patient to make. Only recently have physicians been willing to disclose information about the benefits and risks of recommended therapies. 3 Even with the best of intentions, however, the discussions that do take place are often far from the law's ideal of reasonable disclosure …
Fairy Tales Surrogate Mothers Tell, George J. Annas
Fairy Tales Surrogate Mothers Tell, George J. Annas
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How did surrogate motherhood evolve from a "hare-brained, fly by night" idea of the late 1970s into one that had at least some mainstream, middle-class support in the mid-198os? Many explanations have been suggested. Although the rate of infertility has not increased, infertility is no longer a secret, and there are major public support groups, like RESOLVE, that advocate for infertile couples. New and powerful techniques like IVF (in vitro fertilization) have been developed, and although they help very few people, they have been widely publicized and approved. And babies are fashionable again. As one movie critic put it: "Men …