From Both Sides Now
Informed Consent, Organ Transplantation, and Family‐Based Disclosure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6089977 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bonnie Kae Grover (University of Colorado Health, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 188-209 |
| Publication date | 1995-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0265-8240 • E-ISSN: 1467-9930 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9930.1995.tb00144.x |
| PMID | 11660459 |
| OpenAlex | W2084564585 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Drawing on the legal and social development of the right of individual patients to give informed consent to medical treatment, this article explores some implications of heroic life‐saving measures in medicine that are made possibly by unprecedented advances in medical technology. Talcing cardiac transplantation as its primary example, the article examines the broader effects, both short‐term and long‐term, on family members as well as on the patient of this and similar types of heroic treatment. The author then offers a novel legal theory: where the heroic measure holds the risk of serious or life threatening changes, not just for the patients themselves but for their intimately connected family members as well, those members ought to have a legal right to participate in the informed consent process. The author sketches the contours of such a right and defends it in the face of various objections that may be made to it.I've looked at life from both sides now from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall. I really don't know life at all.(“Both Sides Now,” on Colors of the Day: The Best of Judy Collins, Electra Records 1972
Alternative medicine · Cognitive psychology · Face (sociological concept · Illusion · Informed consent · Political science · Recall · Social science · Sociology · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law · Surgery · Transplantation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |