TY - JOUR T1 - The impossibility of informed consent? JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 44 LP - 47 DO - 10.1136/medethics-2014-102308 VL - 41 IS - 1 AU - Kenneth Boyd Y1 - 2015/01/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/41/1/44.abstract N2 - The problematic nature of informed consent to medical treatment and research, and its relation to autonomy, trust and clinical practice, has been addressed on many occasions and from a variety of ethical perspectives in the pages of the Journal of Medical Ethics. This paper gives an account of how discussion of these issues has developed and changed, by describing a number of significant contributions to these debates which provide examples of ‘doing good medical ethics’ over the 40 years of the Journal's publication. ER -