Philosophy and Medicine: East Asian and American Perspectives

Fan, Ruiping

This volume addresses the proper character of patient informed consent to medical treatment and clinical research. The goal is critically to explore the current individually oriented approach to informed consent which grew out of the dominant bioethics movement that arose in the United States in the 1970s. In contrast to that individually oriented approach, this volume explores the importance of family-oriented approaches to informed consent for medical treatment and clinical research. It draws on both East Asian moral resources as well as a critical response to the ways in which the practice of informed consent has developed in the United States

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2015-03-25

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319121192

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-12120-8

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 288