'Informed consent' to medical treatment and the impotence of tort

First Do No Harm: Law, Ethics and Healthcare

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 273-286

  Jackson, Emily ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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