Form-made persons: Consent forms as consent’s blind spot

Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 249-268

  Jacob, Marie Andrée ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Design of consent forms; Ergonomics; Ethnography of documents; Hospital bureaucracy; Personhood; Signature

Indexed keywords

EID: 62649110149     PISSN: 10816976     EISSN: 15552934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/pol.2007.30.2.249     Document Type: Article

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