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Article: letters.(on informed consent; stem cell research)
- Article from:
- The Hastings Center Report
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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Why Study Informed Consent?
Madam: The annotated bibliography of 377 empirical research studies on informed consent ("Empirical Research on Informed Consent: An Annotated Bibliography," HCR, January-February 1999) is dismaying. The study of informed consent has become a cottage industry, usually funded by grants. But what is the point of it all? Assuredly, such studies do not inform whether in a particular case there has been an informed consent. Is it to inform whether to use video or written forms? Whatever happened to common sense?
The studies on informed consent were sparked by the development in law of the doctrine of informed consent. In large ...