Autonomy, Informed Consent and Medical Law

A Relational Challenge
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-107-62541-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 460 g

Reihe: Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maclean, Alasdair

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Medizin- und Gesundheitsrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I:
1. Autonomy
2. The relevance of beneficence, justice and virtue
3. The healthcare professional-patient relationship: setting the context for consent
4. The concept of consent - what it is and what it isn't
Part II. Consent and the Law:
5. The legal regulation of consent
6. Rationalising the law and ethics of consent
7. Constructing consent - future regulation and the practice of healthcare
Summary and conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Maclean, Alasdair
Having qualified in medicine and worked clinically in both England and New Zealand, Alasdair Maclean studied law and became a lecturer in medical law at the University of Glasgow. He is now a senior lecturer at the University of Dundee.