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The Need for Informed Consent: Lessons from the Ancient Greeks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2006

JOSÉ MIOLA
JOSÉ MIOLA
Affiliation:
University of Leicester, United Kingdom
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Some time ago, Ian Kennedy asked whether consent was

the great bulwark of “patient's rights”? Is it a necessary nuisance granted as a concession to modish thinking? Is it simply a figment of some lawyer's (or—awful word—medical ethicist's) imagination which practitioners know is meaningless in practice? Is it just part of the rhetoric of “patient power”, sent to try doctors' patience and challenge their authority?I thank Professor Matti Häyry for his extremely perceptive and helpful comments, which have added much to this paper.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: THE POWER OF CHOICE: AUTONOMY, INFORMED CONSENT, AND THE RIGHT TO REFUSE
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 152 - 160
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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