1st Edition
Informed Consent in Medical Ethics, Regulation, and the Law A Unified Model
By Louise Austin
Copyright 2026
308 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
308 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book constructs a model of informed consent to surgery utilising empirical ethics and socio-legal analysis to bring together medical ethics, medical professional regulation, and medical law. The work includes an original socio-legal analysis of the models of informed consent to surgery present in court judgments and fitness to practise decisions. It constructs such a model using the... Read more
1. Finding a Unified Model of Informed Consent to Surgery 2. Medical Ethics: Contested Models of Informed Consent 3. Medical Professional Regulation: A Consistent Approach 4. Medical Law: A Shifting Model of Informed Consent 5. Fitness to Practise Decisions' Model of Informed Consent 6. Court Judgments Model of Informed Consent 7. A Unified Model of Informed Consent 8. Concluding Thoughts
Biography
Louise Austin is a Lecturer in Law and Member of the Centre for Rights and Equality in Healthcare Law at the University of Leicester.
