title: Legal norms vs. doctors and patients’ perceptions of the content and meaning of the informed consent to medical intervеntion
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metadata.value: Belov, Sergei A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Revazova, Ekaterina A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Rudneva, Ekaterina A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-02-09T13:10:40Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-02-09T13:10:40Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Belov, Sergei A., Ekaterina A. Revazova, Ekaterina A. Rudneva. 2021. “Legal norms vs. doctors and patients’ perceptions of the content and meaning of the informed consent to medical intervеntion”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law 4: 847–864.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2021.403
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/34782
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Informed consent to medical intervention represents the principle of individual autonomy,
  recognized in Russian law and medical practice nearly 30 years ago, but it is still viewed as
  controversial and even rejected. The purpose of informed consent is to provide obligatory
  prior notification about the consequences and risks of a medical procedure to be performed,
  as well as other possible options of treatment. Based on the results of anthropological and
  legal studies, the article focuses on issues concerning obtaining informed consent and its
  interpretations, comparing the meanings attributed to the document by lawyers, government
  agencies, courts, as well as doctors and patients. The legal nature of the consent consists in
  expressing a person’s will for medical intervention and his decision which cannot be made by
  anyone else. The meaning that patients and doctors attribute to informed consent, as shown by
  results of a survey and interviews, is shifting risks and responsibility for negative consequences
  from the medical organization to the patient. Stylistic features of the document influence its
  perception by ordinary citizens, resulting in fear and doubts about the doctor’s qualifications.
  Russian courts usually follow a formal approach when judging whether the signature reflects
  the patient’s real expressed will. Failure to understand the meaning of the document being
  signed, a circumstance that is sometimes cited when justifying an error in a transaction, is
  usually not recognized as sufficient. Although the document is formulated on behalf of the
  patient, he receives a ready-made text, containing information of a professional nature. This
  causes difficulties in the patient’s understanding of the document that has been drawn up
  on his behalf. However, when a person argues that he signed an informed consent without
  understanding its content, courts often do not consider his words sufficient, thus failing to
  stimulate medical organizations to provide a document that is catered to ordinary people’s
  medical and linguistic competences.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The reported study was funded by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 19-18-
  00525 “Understandability of the official Russian: legal and linguistic issues”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Law;Volume 12; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: informed consent
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: medical intervention
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: court practice
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: interviews
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: doctors and patients
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: language of legal documents
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: understandability of legal language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: difficulties in understanding documents
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Legal norms vs. doctors and patients’ perceptions of the content and meaning of the informed consent to medical intervеntion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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