RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The impossibility of informed consent?
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 44
OP 47
DO 10.1136/medethics-2014-102308
VO 41
IS 1
A1 Kenneth Boyd
YR 2015
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/41/1/44.abstract
AB 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.