Informed Consent in Medical Practice Principles and Conventions

This book focuses on informed consent in medical practice: principles and conventions. Medical practice provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit. This book is truly an excellent compilation of extremely practical and relevant information by highly distinguished personalities deeply connected with legal aspects of the medical profession. This book consists of 5 chapters, which include concepts and principles of informed consent, informed consent in special circumstances, suggested formats of informed consent, case laws on consent in medical practice, and informed consent in forensic medicine. The book provides a comprehensive view of the issue of informed consent in medical practice and deals with it in a lucid and yet exhaustive manner. The book is like a ready reckoner and readers can find answers too many of their doubts relating to the concept and process of informed consent in a required yet readable format.