A Structurational Analysis of Informed Consent to Treatment

(Re)productions of Contradictory Sociohistorical Structures in Practitioners' Interpretive Schemes

Bibliographic Data

ID5454913
AuthorsJames Olumide Olufowote (Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume19
Issue6
Pages802-814
Publication date2009-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732309335605
PMID19365100
OpenAlexW2167659874
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited46

Informed consent (IC) to treatment honors patient autonomy and bodily integrity. Yet, it is a leading reason for patient litigation, it has not been examined from discursive or theoretical perspectives, and its sociohistorical context is ignored. In a previous analysis of American IC law and the IC literature, structuration theory guided a reconceptualization of IC as unfolding amid contradictory sociohistorical structures or discursive formations-traditionalism, liability, and decision making-representing interests favoring a group's (physicians, states and administrative entities, and patients, respectively) control of IC. This study's focus groups with radiologists found them (re)producing these structures in their interpretive schemes of patients' reactions to IC, IC as protective paperwork, and IC as a patient- and relationship-centered process

Alternative medicine · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Informed consent · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Engineering · Medicine · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare · Philosophy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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