Download This PaperInformed Consent: Looking for the Action
32 Pages Posted: 17 Nov 2009
Date Written: September 14, 1975
Abstract
This Article suggests that the civil action based upon a lack of informed consent, as applied by the courts to date, is inadequate to its assigned task. The Article suggests judicial and legislative changes in the informed consent action to remedy the identified weakness.
Keywords: informed consent, negligence, battery, medical, patient, tort
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Riskin, Leonard L., Informed Consent: Looking for the Action (September 14, 1975). University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 1975, No. 4, 1975, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1507260
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