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3 - Autonomy and Informed Consent in the Real World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

Barbara A. Reich
Barbara A. Reich
Affiliation:
Western New England University School of Law
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The twentieth century ushered in a dazzling array of modern medical technologies including many effective new treatments for disease and novel preventative therapies that have helped extend the average lifespan dramatically. From penicillin and polio vaccines to statins to immunotherapies and robotic surgery, we enjoy the benefits of science and medicine. While life expectancy at birth in the United States in 1900 was just over 47 years,1 we now live, on average for 78.7 years.

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autonomybeneficencehopeinformed consentinnumeracyphysician-patient communicationracial discrimination
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Intimations of Mortality
Medical Decision-Making at the End of Life
 , pp. 37 - 73
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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