Consent in medicine : convergence and divergence in tradition / edited by G.R. Dunstan and Mary J. Seller.

London : King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, [1983], ©1983.

128 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographies and index

Conversations overheard / G.R. Dunstan -- What may a patient properly expect of his doctor? / Peter Byrne -- The doctor's duty to heal and the patient's consent in the Jewish tradition / Immanuel Jakobovits -- Consent and practice in the Catholic tradition / Brendan Soane -- Divergence on consent / Peter Byrne -- The development of the concepts and practice of patient consent / Paul E. Polani -- Appended note on consent in law / Ian Kennedy -- Considerations governing a doctor's advice to his patient / Elliot E. Philipp and E. Stewart Johnson.