Matthew Dayna Bowen
University of Colorado Law School, USA.
J Law Med Ethics. 2008 Spring;36(1):150-73, 4. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2008.00244.x.
That minority patients have not figured at all in the literature about informed consent is an egregious omission which this article begins to repair. Moreover, the article demonstrates that by addressing identifiable harms which informed consent law now causes to racial, religious, and ethnic minority patients, the law may also better address many of the concerns legal commentators have been discussing for years with only majority patients in mind. Ironically, the solution to the discrimination felt by the excluded members of society may turn out to provide the remedy for the informed consent doctrine as a whole.
少数族裔患者在有关知情同意的文献中完全没有被提及，这是一个极其严重的疏忽，而本文开始着手弥补这一疏忽。此外，本文表明，通过解决知情同意法目前对种族、宗教和少数族裔患者造成的可识别伤害，该法律或许还能更好地解决法律评论家多年来仅考虑多数患者时一直在讨论的许多问题。具有讽刺意味的是，为社会中被排斥成员所感受到的歧视找到的解决方案，可能最终会为整个知情同意原则提供补救办法。
