Consent is used in many different social and legal contexts with the pervasive understanding that it is, and has always been, about autonomy - but has it? Begin

In R. v. Ewanchuk, the Supreme Court of Canada held that sexual touching must be accompanied by express, contemporaneous consent. In doing so, the Court rejecte

The notion that consent based on the concept of autonomy, underpins a good or beneficent medical intervention is deeply rooted in the jurisprudence of most coun

In mid-sixteenth-century England, people were born into authority and responsibility based on their social status. Thus elite children could designate property

The goal of this book is to shed psychoanalytic light on a concept—informed consent—that has transformed the delivery of health care in the United States. E