Suggested reading
Hope, Savulescu and Hendrick, Medical Ethics and Law, the core curriculum,
Churchill Livingstone 2003, Chapters 3 and 6
Mason and McCall Smith. Law and Medical Ethics, J.K. Mason, R.A. McCall Smith, G.T. Laurie, (Butterworths) 2002.
The courts' role in decisions about medical treatment, Laurence Oates, Official Solicitor, BMJ 2000;321:1282-1284
Better to hesitate at the threshold of compulsion: PKU testing and the concept of family autonomy in Eire, G Laurie, J Med Ethics; 2002; 28:136-138
Depression and competence to refuse psychiatric treatment, A Rudnick, J Med Ethics; 2002; 28:151-155
Consent, sectionalisation and the concept of a medical procedure, A R Maclean, J Med Ethics; 2002; 28: 249-254
Clinical issues on consent: some philosophical concerns, R Worthington, J Med Ethics; 2002; 28: 377-380
Some limits of informed consent, O O’Neill, J Med Ethics 2003; 29: 4-7
Incapacity to give informed consent owing to mental disorder, C W Van Staden, C Kruger, J Med Ethics;2003; 29: 41-43
Paternalism and partial autonomy, Onora O'Neill, J Med Ethics;1984; 10: 173-8.