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Limits to consent in cosmetic interventions: an update
Author(s) -
Holden Alexander C. L.,
Stewart Cameron
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/imj.14387
Subject(s) - medicine , statement (logic) , psychological intervention , law , informed consent , set (abstract data type) , alternative medicine , nursing , political science , pathology , computer science , programming language
Abstract This update restates the legal limits of consent to medical treatment. It reviews the classic statement of law set down by the case of R v Brown , where ‘proper medical treatment’ was stated to be exempted from the ordinary laws of consent. This position has been recently developed further by the 2018 English case of R v BM where a non‐medical body modification artist was convicted for having carried out substantive body modification procedures. This article considers how these developments may affect Australian law, particularly laws pertaining to cosmetic procedures.