Informed Consent: Its History, Meaning, and Present Challenges

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 20 (4):515-523 (2011)
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The practice of obtaining informed consent has its history in, and gains its meaning from, medicine and biomedical research. Discussions of disclosure and justified nondisclosure have played a significant role throughout the history of medical ethics, but the term “informed consent” emerged only in the 1950s. Serious discussion of the meaning and ethics of informed consent began in medicine, research, law, and philosophy only around 1972

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