Autonomy, Informed Consent and Medical Law: A Relational Challenge

Autonomy, Informed Consent and Medical Law: A Relational Challenge

by Alasdair Maclean
Autonomy, Informed Consent and Medical Law: A Relational Challenge

Autonomy, Informed Consent and Medical Law: A Relational Challenge

by Alasdair Maclean

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781107625419
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/05/2013
Series: Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics , #8
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 316
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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.
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