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The ethics of consent : theory and practice / edited by Franklin G. Miller and Alan Wertheimer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consent (Law).
- Informed consent (Medical law).
- Ethics.
- Medical ethics.
- Informed Consent--ethics.
- Ethics, Medical.
- Medical Subjects:
- Informed Consent--ethics.
- Ethics.
- Ethics, Medical.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 416 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Consent is a basic component of the ethics of human relations making permissible a wide range of conduct that would otherwise be wrongful. Consent marks the difference between slavery & employment, permissible sexual relations & rape, borrowing or selling & theft, medical treatment & battery, participation in research & being a human guinea pig.
- Contents:
- The nature of consent / John Kleinig
- A history of consent in Western thought / David Johnston
- Autonomy and consent / Tom Beauchamp
- Preface to a theory of consent transactions : beyond valid consent / Franklin G. Miller and Alan Wertheimer
- Paternalism and consent / Douglas Husak
- Hypothetical consent / Arthur Kuflik
- Consent to harm / Vera Bergelson
- Consent to sexual relations / Alan Wertheimer
- Sex, law, and consent / Robin West
- Contracts / Brian H. Bix
- Consent with inducements : the case of body parts and services / Janet Radcliffe Richards
- Political obligation and consent / A. John Simmons
- Advances in informed consent research / Philip Candilis and Charles W. Lidz
- Consent to medical care : the importance of fiduciary context / Steven Joffe and Robert D. Truog
- Consent to clinical research / Franklin G. Miller.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Ethics of consent.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-54440-3
- 9786612544408
- 0-19-971505-X
- 9780199866335
- OCLC:
- 556970709
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