title: [The application of informed consent in medicine as social construction].
abstract: The aim of this article is to propose an anthropological point of view about informed consent in medicine. This quest for legitimacy should be read as a relational and social construction. In the heart of clinical complexity we find on one side various techniques employed by the medical community to validate research and to obtain the consent of patients. On the other side patients offer plural and subjective answers due to the doctor patient hierarchical and long relationship. Between constraints and freedoms, informed consent brings to light social relation.
authors.affiliation: Institut des sciences sociales, Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques, Université de Lausanne. anne-christine.voeffrayfavre@unil.ch
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Voeffray Favre
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ruiz
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bodenmann
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gianinazzi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Izzo
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rossi
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics; D012941:Social Responsibility