A History and Theory of Informed Consent
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Title
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A History and Theory of Informed Consent
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ABP identifier
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ABP-W-0023
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Date
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1986
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Type
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Book
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Description
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Faden and Beauchamp combined historical research with philosophical analysis to explain how informed consent developed in clinical medicine, research regulation, and law. They distinguished autonomous authorization from the institutional rules and disclosure practices commonly called informed consent, then examined understanding, voluntariness, competence, and manipulation.
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Intellectual stream
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Research ethics & consent
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Principles & methods
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Verification status
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Verified
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Evidence confidence
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High
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Historical significance
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Faden and Beauchamp combined historical research with philosophical analysis to explain how informed consent developed in clinical medicine, research regulation, and law. They distinguished autonomous authorization from the institutional rules and disclosure practices commonly called informed consent, then examined understanding, voluntariness, competence, and manipulation. Nancy M. P. King collaborated on the study. The book corrected simplified origin stories that treated consent as the product of a single court case or code. It also gave scholars a durable vocabulary for separating the moral act of authorizing an intervention from the procedures designed to protect it. That distinction has influenced research ethics, clinical practice, and later debates about whether a signed form demonstrates meaningful choice.
