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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 174.28 EAN: 9780521697477 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0521697476 Label: Cambridge University Press Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 226 Publication Date: April 09, 2007 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Studio: Cambridge University Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Informed consent is a central topic in contemporary biomedical ethics. Yet attempts to set defensible and feasible standards for consenting have led to persistent difficulties. In Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics Neil Manson and Onora O'Neill set debates about informed consent in medicine and research in a fresh light. They show why informed consent cannot be fully specific or fully explicit, and why more specific consent is not always ethically better. They argue that consent needs distinctive communicative transactions, by which other obligations, prohibitions, and rights can be waived or set aside in controlled and specific ways. Their book offers a coherent, wide-ranging and practical account of the role of consent in biomedicine which will be valuable to readers working in a range of areas in bioethics, medicine and law. Book Description: Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics offers a coherent, wide-ranging and practical account of the role of consent in biomedicine which will be valuable to readers working in a range of areas in bioethics, medicine and law. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Very Good CritiqueThis is a very good critique of the rationale for and present practice of using informed consent in research and clinical practice. To some extent, this book is a sequel to O'Neill's prior work on bioethics. In her Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics, O'Neill presented a very effective critique of the reliance on the concept of autonomy and the nature of the concept of autonomy used in clinical and research ethics. O'Neill argued well that the reliance on the principle of autonomy was poorly formulated ... Read More 
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