Contents -- Part I. FOUNDATIONS -- 1. Foundations in Moral Theory -- Principles, Rules, and Rights -- Three Principles -- Balancing Moral Principles and Rights -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2. Foundations in Legal Theory -- Moral Principles and Legal Rights -- Common Law and the Legal Doctrine -- Constitutional Law and the Right to Privacy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II. A HISTORY OF INFORMED CONSENT -- 3. Pronouncement and Practice in Clinical Medicine -- Problems of Historical Interpretation -- Codes and Treatises from Hippocrates to the AMA -- American Medical Practices in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- The Arrival of Informed Consent -- Conclusion: Everything's Changed, and Nothing's Changed -- Notes -- 4. Consent and the Courts: The Emergence of the Legal Doctrine -- Reading Law -- Consent Before the Twentieth Century -- The Early Twentieth-Century Cases: The Birth of Basic Consent -- 1957-1972: Consent Becomes Informed -- 1972-Present: Informed Consent Flourishes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. The Development of Consent Requirements in Research Ethics -- Consent in the Biomedical Sciences -- Consent in the Behavioral Sciences -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. The Evolution of Federal Policy Governing Human Research -- Early Federal Recognition-Two DHEW Agencies from 1962-1974 -- Later Federal Developments: Two Commissions and New Regulations from 1974-1983 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part III. A THEORY OF INFORMED CONSENT -- 7. The Concept of Autonomy -- Autonomy and Informed Consent -- Three Conditions of Autonomous Action -- Is Authenticity a Necessary Condition? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8. The Concepts of Informed Consent and Competence -- Two Concepts of Informed Consent -- Competence to Consent: The Gatekeeping Concept -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9. Understanding -- Understanding and Authorizing.

Criteria of Substantial Understanding -- Standards of Understanding and Disclosure -- Communication and the Understanding of Information -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10. Coercion, Manipulation, and Persuasion -- Coercion -- Persuasion -- Manipulation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.