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Informed consent : a primer for clinical practice / Deborah Bowman, John Spicer, Rehana Iqbal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowman, Deborah, author.
- Spicer, John, 1954- author.
- Iqbal, Rehana, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Informed consent (Medical law).
- Physician and patient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (99 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The literature on informed consent and its ethico-legal significance in clinical practice has grown rapidly in recent years. This unique book offers a practical description of the principles of informed consent and their application in daily clinical practice. Written by a team of experts in medical ethics and law, the chapters use a case-based approach to elucidate the essence of consent and highlight the ways in which individual patients and diverse situations can shape and even challenge the fundamental principles of informed consent. A range of situations in both primary and secondary care are covered and the content is arranged conceptually to help emphasise certain recurrent and related themes. An informative and rigorous yet accessible text, Informed Consent: A Primer for Clinical Practice is an essential resource for healthcare professionals working in all medical fields.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Informed Consent: A Primer for Clinical Practice
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction to clinical consent: laying out the territory
- Introducing consent
- Challenges for the clinician
- Clinical consent: its composition
- Forms of consent
- The context of medical consent
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
- Chapter 2: On capacity: can the patient decide?
- Introduction
- What is understanding?
- Immaturity: the younger patient
- Children, capacity and best interests
- The developing child's capacity
- Illness and capacity
- Irrationality and eccentricity
- Some challenges
- Chapter 3: Putting the informed into consent: information and decision-making
- Why is information important?
- Look who's talking: who should provide information?
- How much information?
- What don't you know? Uncertainty and consent
- What do you want to know that for? The purpose of information
- Putting it all together: the essence of information
- Chapter 4: Voluntariness: the freedom to choose
- On the nature of coercion
- Power
- Systemic coercion
- Relatives, friends and others
- Legal limits to voluntariness
- Public health, compulsion and consent
- Mental health, compulsion and consent
- Mental capacity, deprivation of liberty and consent
- Voluntariness: concluding thoughts
- Chapter 5: Continuing consent: does the patient still agree?
- Continuing consent and the process of healthcare
- Continuity of consent and changes in identity
- Changing clinicians
- Changing patients
- Continuing consent: concluding thoughts
- Chapter 6: Concluding thoughts on consent
- The reading room
- Fiction
- Non-fiction
- Poetry
- The theatre
- The picture house
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-23245-7
- 1-139-21027-0
- 1-139-21851-4
- 9786613580498
- 1-280-48551-5
- 1-139-22160-4
- 1-139-21542-6
- 1-139-22503-0
- 1-139-22331-3
- 1-139-05752-9
- OCLC:
- 794307441
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