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Informed consent is the process by which health care professionals are expected to obtain valid consent from patients and research participants. It involves a process of giving information and making sure of an understanding of this information, a voluntary choice, and competence on the part of the patient (or research participant). The reasonable person standard is useful as it can fit in to most situations by defining what a reasonable person in that situation would be. This applies to newer issues such as a broad consent, but more importantly plays a role in cultural divergence and what a reasonable person in each culture would define as a standard.
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Faden, R. R., & Beauchamp, T. L. (1986). A history and theory of informed consent. New York: Oxford University Press.
Moreno, J. D., Caplan, A. L., & Root Wolpe, P. (1998). Informed consent. In R. Chadwick (Ed.), Encyclopedia of applied ethics (Vol. 2, pp. 687–697). London/Sydney/New York: Academic.
Levine, R. J. (2008). Informed consent: Some challenges to the universal validity. In T. L. Beauchamp, L. Walters, J. P. Kahn, & A. C. Mastroianni (Eds.), Contemporary issues in bioethics (7th ed., pp. 170–176). Australia/USA/UK/Brazil/Mexico/Spain/Japan: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
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Mallia, P. (2015). Consent: Informed. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_120-1
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