Informed consent in clinical practice: what is it and how can it be achieved?
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Peterson, Madelyn
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Kate MacDonald
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2006
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Ethics is the discipline dealing with the consideration of the question: what constitutes acceptable moral conduct? Generally, professional ethics take the form of agreed guidelines that, while often partially founded on legal requirements, they are often not actually subject to direct legal guidance. This is particularly true for health disciplines that involve cutting edge technologies, which evolve more rapidly than the responding legal processes and policy formation.
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12
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1