Informed consent is a central topic in contemporary biomedical ethics. Yet attempts to set defensible and feasible standards for consenting have led to persiste

​The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals th

This work provides a thought-provoking account of how medical treatments can be tested with unbiased or 'fair' trials and explains how patients can work with do

Informed consent - as an ethical ideal and legal doctrine - has been the source of much concern to clinicians. Drawing on a diverse set of backgrounds and two d

Argues against the conceptions of individual autonomy which are widely relied on in bioethics.