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“Personal Autonomy” (entry in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/personal-autonomy/
Ethics in Medicine (Informed Consent)
http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/consent.html
President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research (Making Health Care Decisions)
http://www.bioethics.gov/reports/past_commissions/making_health_care_decisions.pdf
The Program for Science Ethics and Public Policy (Informed Consent)
http://sepp.dbi.udel.edu/biomed.html
The Nuremberg Code
http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/guidelines/nuremberg.html.
An early articulation of the necessity of obtaining voluntary, informed consent for medical treatment and research involving human subjects
The Declaration of Helsinki
http://www.wma.net/en/20activities/10ethics/10helsinki/
The Belmont Report
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/belmont.html
See especially Part C, Section 1.
Case Brief on Bang v. Miller Hospital (1958)
http://www.4lawschool.com/torts/bang.shtml
Case Brief on Mohr v. Williams (1905)
http://www.lawandbioethics.com/demo/Main/LegalResources/C5/Mohr.htm
American Medical Association (AMA) report on “Placebo Use in Clinical Practice”
http://www.ama-assn.org/resources/doc/code-medical-ethics/8083a.pdf
See also AMA report “It’s Not Okay to Use Placebos Deceptively”
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2006/12/04/prsa1204.htm