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This chapter reviews the Saudi version of applying the guidelines of informed consent. Informed consent is defined as “…an autonomous act by a patient or research subject to expressly permit a professional person to perform a medical action on the patient or to include a person in a research project…” ([7]). The main argument is whether the informed consent, as it advocated in the western cultural, is suitable for Saudi patients. To provide a better understanding, it is important to know a few things about the cultural context as it contributes to the discrepancies between the western secular notions of informed consent and the Saudi religious one. The governances in its written form do not differ significantly from the western ones. The application of the enforced written material is not the same. The Saudi personality poses a challenge to the individualistic autonomous notion that introduced the informed consent concept.
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Adlan, A.A. (2013). Informed Consent in Saudi Arabia. In: Beran, R. (eds) Legal and Forensic Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32338-6_153
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