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Informed consent: ideal or reality?

P Alderson1

  • 1Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

Journal of Health Services Research & Policy
|March 8, 1998
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Informed consent for medical treatment and research is complex, often involving a courageous best guess rather than perfect knowledge. Ethical standards, while idealistic, guide the crucial process of decision-making.

Area of Science:

  • Bioethics
  • Medical Law
  • Research Ethics

Background:

  • The feasibility of obtaining truly informed consent is questioned.
  • Existing ethical and legal standards for consent may be too stringent for the general population.
  • Specific challenges arise in pediatric consent for treatment and research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the possibility and nature of informed consent in medicine and research.
  • To critically evaluate current ethical and legal standards of consent.
  • To examine the concept of autonomy in the context of consent.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review focusing on consent in medicine.
  • Analysis of ethical and legal standards.
  • Discussion of paradoxical meanings of consent and autonomy.
Keywords:
Biomedical and Behavioral ResearchProfessional Patient Relationship

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    • Main Results:

    • Informed consent is presented as a process, not a single event.
    • Reasoned understanding can be enhanced by emotional insights.
    • Consent involves evaluation, decision-making, and signification.
    • The ideal of voluntary consent, though partly unrealistic, offers valuable guidance.

    Conclusions:

    • Ethical and legal standards for informed consent, while high, serve as essential guidelines.
    • Consent is better understood as a dynamic process integrating reason and emotion.
    • Navigating consent requires acknowledging its complexities and practical limitations.