PHLB09H3 Chapter 2: Week 3 - readings.docx
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The concept of informed consent faden & beauchamp. Idea of informed consent suggest that a patient or subject does more than express agreement with or comply with an arrangement or proposal. They actively authorize the proposal in the act of consent. Should be defined as: informed consent is an autonomous action by a subject or a patient that authorizes a professional either to involve the subject in research or to initiate a medical plan for the patient (or both) The analysis of informed consent is silent on the question of how the authorizer and agent(s) being authorized arrive at an agreement. Even in clinical contexts, the social and psychological dynamics involved in selecting medical interventions should be distinguished from the patient"s authorization. Although the patient and physician may reach a decision together, they need not. In authorizing, one both assumes responsibility for what one has authorized and transfers to another one"s authority to implement it.
