Informed consent: Does it take a village? The problem of culture and truth telling

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 34-46

  Kuczewski, Mark ^a   McCruden, Patrick J ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Regional Health Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOETHICS; CASE REPORT; CONTROL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PHILOSOPHY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOETHICS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DEMOCRACY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FAMILY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; SOCIAL VALUES; THIRD-PARTY CONSENT; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035648098     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180101001050     Document Type: Review

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