Autonomy, informed consent and medical law : a relational challenge / Alasdair Maclean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maclean, Alasdair (Alasdair Rhuairidh), author.

Series:

Cambridge law, medicine, and ethics ; 8.

Cambridge law, medicine, and ethics ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Informed consent (Medical law)--England.

Informed consent (Medical law).

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 296 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Autonomy, Informed Consent & Medical Law

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Alasdair Maclean analyses the ethical basis for consent to medical treatment, providing both an extensive reconsideration of the ethical issues and a detailed examination of English law. Importantly, the analysis is given a context by situating consent at the centre of the healthcare professional-patient relationship. This allows the development of a relational model that balances the agency of the two parties with their obligations that arise from that relationship. That relational model is then used to critique the current legal regulation of consent. To conclude, Alasdair Maclean considers the future development of the law and contrasts the model of relational consent with Neil Manson and Onora O'Neill's recent proposal for a model of genuine consent.

Contents:

Autonomy

The relevance of beneficence, justice and virtue

The healthcare professional-patient relationship : setting the context for consent

The concept of consent : what it is and what it isn't

The legal regulation of consent

Rationalising the law and ethics of consent

Constructing consent : future regulation and the practice of healthcare.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780511576119

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