Informed Consent: Patient Autonomy and Clinician Beneficence Within Health Care, Second EditionPaperback, 1 November 1998

Wear develops an efficient and flexible model of informed consent that accommodates both clinical realities and legal and ethical imperatives. In this second edition, he has expanded his examination of the larger process within which informed consent takes place and his discussion of the clinician's need for a wide range of discretion.