Limits to consent in cosmetic interventions: an update.
Intern Med J
; 49(8): 1022-1025, 2019 08.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-31387139
ABSTRACT
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.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Surgery, Plastic
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Plastic Surgery Procedures
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Informed Consent
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Oceania
Language:
En
Journal:
Intern Med J
Journal subject:
MEDICINA INTERNA
Year:
2019
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Australia