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Reconceiving the Family: The Process of Consent in Medical Decisionmaking
Author(s) -
Kuczewski Mark G.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3528574
Subject(s) - informed consent , process (computing) , psychology , engineering ethics , law , political science , medicine , computer science , engineering , alternative medicine , pathology , operating system
Bioethicists think about families in terms of conflicting interests. This mistake results from an impoverished notion of informed consent. Only by adequately characterizing the process of informed consent can we capture the phenomenon of shared decisionmaking.