Informed Consent: Patient Autonomy and Clinician Beneficence within Health Care, Second Edition

by Stephen Wear

Overview

Wear develops an efficient and flexible model of informed consent that accommodates both clinical realities and legal and ethical imperatives. In this second edition, he has expanded his examination of the larger process within which informed consent takes place and his discussion of the clinician's need for a wide range of discretion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589013469
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
Publication date:	11/01/1998
Series:	Clinical Medical Ethics series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
Lexile:	1540L (what's this?)
File size:	12 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Stephen Wear is a clinical associate professor in the Departments of Medicine, Obstetrics-Gynecology, and Philosophy, and co-director of the Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care, all at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Editorial Reviews

Basing his discussion on the belief that the practice and formulation of the bioethical notion of informed consent is nowhere as settled as is believed by many commentators nor less important than other issues such as abortion, the author presents a model of informed consent for practicing clinicians which, he contends, fashions a compromise between its strongest proponents and opponents. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

[Wear's] medical management model offers an important complement to theoretical and historical discussions of informed consent. . . . [his] experience as a clinical ethicist is refreshingly obvious.

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

A useful, thoughtful, timely and important book. . . . Wear sets himself the not immodest task of laying out 'a comprehensive sense of informed consent as an effective and needed tool for medical management'. . . . nuanced and clinically sensitive.

Journal of American Geriatrics Society

Written in a clear, simple, and very practically oriented style. It provides dozens of helpful recommendations to practitioners regarding how to proceed in different situations.

Journal of Medical Ethics