Ethics and Values / Unit 8 Ethics 389 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Informed Consent
Captions available
The idea
Informed consent — disclosure, comprehension, voluntariness, capacity — is what turns bodily intervention from assault into treatment: permission that actually knows what it permits.
In practice
A signature gathered at midnight from a sedated patient has the form and none of the elements. The elements are the consent.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it · Sources for Ethics and Values