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This book is truly an excellent compilation of extremely practical and relevant information by highly distinguished personalities deeply connected with legal aspects of the medical profession. The book provides a comprehensive view of the issue of informed consent in medical practice and deals with it in a lucid and yet exhaustive manner. It is a much needed contribution in the medicolegal field and will indeed be useful to doctors, lawyers, social organizations, and medical students.Key Features:• Exclusively devoted to the issue of consent in medical practice. • Divided into 5 sections, such as Concepts and Principles of Informed Consent; Informed Consent in Special Circumstances; Suggested Format of Informed Consent; Case Laws on Consent in Medical Practice; Informed Consent in Forensic Medicine, along with Suggested Reading and Abbreviations. • Discusses comprehensive information about the evolution of the concept of consent based on some landmark court judgments across the globe. • Keeping in mind the practical problems faced by the medical practitioners, templates of some kinds of consent and relevant information about conents in specific situations have been provided. • A separate part is devoted to consents in medicolegal matters.