The University of Sydney School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The University of Sydney School of Law, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Intern Med J. 2019 Aug;49(8):1022-1025. doi: 10.1111/imj.14387.
This update restates the legal limits of consent to medical treatment. It reviews the classic statement of law set down by the case of R v Brown, where 'proper medical treatment' was stated to be exempted from the ordinary laws of consent. This position has been recently developed further by the 2018 English case of R v BM where a non-medical body modification artist was convicted for having carried out substantive body modification procedures. This article considers how these developments may affect Australian law, particularly laws pertaining to cosmetic procedures.
本更新重申了同意医疗的法律限制。它回顾了 R v Brown 案中确立的经典法律声明，其中规定“适当的医疗”不受普通同意法的约束。这一立场最近在 2018 年英国的 R v BM 案中得到进一步发展，该案中一名非医疗身体修饰艺术家因实施实质性身体修饰程序而被定罪。本文考虑了这些发展如何可能影响澳大利亚法律，特别是与美容程序有关的法律。
