Consent in medicine
Subtitle: convergence and divergence in tradition
By: edited by G.R. Dunstan and Mary J. Seller.
Contributors: Dunstan, G. R.; Seller, Mary J.
Publisher: King Edward's Hospital Fund for London; Distributed by Oxford University Press; Oxford Univ Pr
Published: 1983
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Informed consent (Medical law); Medical ethics.; Physician and patient.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Conversations overheard / G.R. Dunstan; title: What may a patient properly expect of his doctor? / Peter Byrne; title: The doctor's duty to heal and the patient's consent in the Jewish tradition / Immanuel Jakobovits; title: Consent and practice in the Catholic tradition / Brendan Soane; title: Divergence on consent / Peter Byrne; title: The development of the concepts and practice of patient consent / Paul E. Polani; title: Appended note on consent in law / Ian Kennedy; title: Considerations governing a doctor's advice to his patient / Elliot E. Philipp and E. Stewart Johnson.