Race, religion, and informed consent--lessons from social science
Matthew, D.B.
Journal of Law Medicine and Ethics a Journal of the American Society of Law Medicine and Ethics 36(1): 150-173; 4
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 1073-1105 PMID: 18315768 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720x.2008.00244.x
Accession: 055340437
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Summary
That minority patients have not figured at all in the literature about informed consent is an egregious omission which this article begins to repair. Moreover, the article demonstrates that by addressing identifiable harms which informed consent law now causes to racial, religious, and ethnic minority patients, the law may also better address many of the concerns legal commentators have been discussing for years with only majority patients in mind. Ironically, the solution to the discrimination felt by the excluded members of society may turn out to provide the remedy for the informed consent doctrine as a whole.
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