Chapter 5 Self-Practice Quiz

. The action of an autonomous, informed person agreeing to submit to medical treatment or experimentation is known as

. The ability to render decisions about medical interventions is known as

. A patient's voluntary and deliberate giving up of the right of informed consent is called

. The withholding of relevant information from a patient when the physician believes disclosure would likely do harm is known as

. A credible and severe threat of harm or force to control another has been called

. Incompetence does not come in degrees.

. In the 1970s, courts began to insist that the adequacy of disclosure should be judged by what patients themselves find relevant to their situation.

. Informed consent requires that patients understand all information given to them.

. Some theorists have defined informed consent as autonomous authorization.

. The requirement of informed consent can be derived directly from Kantian ethics.

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