Autonomy, competence, and informed consent in long term care: legal and psychological perspectives.
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MEDICAL ETHICS Professional-patient relationships and informed consent
Four theoretical ethical perspectives on professional-patient relationships—autonomy, justice, virtue ethics, and the ethic of care—are surveyed, and some of their implications for the informed consent requirement in health care are sketched out. The practical issues of competence to consent, adequate information, and voluntariness are reviewed, and examples are given of the ways in which the t...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Villanova law review
دوره 37 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1992