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Comments on “The Ethical Content of Legally Informed Consent”

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Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics

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Professor Dicken’s provocative paper merits etensive circulation and comment. I shall focus on three points likely to cause confusion, if not controversy, in the conceptual as well as the clinical area.

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Lynch, A. (1978). Comments on “The Ethical Content of Legally Informed Consent”. In: Davis, J.W., Hoffmaster, B., Shorten, S. (eds) Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics. Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6239-8_17

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