This is a comprehensive discussion of the ethical issues involved in informing patients on their rights and participation in medical research and treatment. With 30 chapters contributed by internationally recognised medical ethicists, Informed Consent provides an authoritative reference on a subject of major importance in medical ethics
About the Author
Len Doyal FRSA FRSocMed is emeritus professor of medical ethics at Queen Mary, University of London and a medical ethicist. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1944 and studied philosophy and sociology at Georgia State University, earning his undergraduate degree in 1966. Jeffrey S. Tobias is the editor of Informed Consent in Medical Research, published by Wiley.
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Includes a full discussion of ethical issues relating to informed consent in medical research Written by an international range of outstanding and high-profile specialists from ethics, medicine, law and patient representation There is no other book that approaches this topic with the same breadth of detail
