Historical Origins of Informed Consent in Cancer Surgery

Wilson IB Onuigbo

Abstract

Informed consent is commonly held to be a modern development that is linked with legal aftermaths. This paper presents the historical origins of this troublesome theme from 1753 to 1896. Hopefully, current adversarial attitudes would become minimal while surgical sagacity would fructify freely.

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