Jurisprudential Landmarks Regarding The Informed Consent

Aurora Ciuca

European Journal of Law and Public Administration, 2017, vol. 4, issue 1, 25-33

Abstract: A court decision that admitted the patient’s right to decide with regard to his body took the American medical world by surprise in 1914. After decades of silence, the decision of a judge who asked the doctor to share the decision with the patient marked the beginning of a change in the communication pattern between them. Today, the culture of human rights, the wide access to medical information, the risks involved by the new technologies impose a permanent re-adjustment of the doctor-patient relationships and of the relationship between medicine and law. The analysis of the jurisprudence of international courts attempted in this paper may provide a few hints in this direction.

Keywords: informed consent; doctor-patient relationship; international bioethics; ECHR case-law regarding informed consent. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.18662/eljpa/03

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