The Ethics of Consent

"This is a collection of essays on different facets of the ethics of consent by well-known authors from a variety of disciplines...The purpose is to provide a contemporary, general and multidisciplinary treatment of the topic of consent, which has not been previously addressed in this way in a book-length format....because the book is written by experts working in a variety of disciplines , the book will be relevant for a wide cross-section of academics, in bioethics, but also in law, political theory, and gender and sexuality studies. The authors are some of the most important figures who have written on this topic...This is a valuable addition to the literature because it brings together substantial and original works on consent from a variety of fields."--Doody's "This is the most important book on consent in at least 20 years...The 15 chapters include some of the best and most well-known authors on the topic." --JAMA "The book is a fascinating walk through the world of consent." --Jessica Berg, Case Western Reserve University "Consent scholars should definitely take the time to read the book through, and others will find individual chapters useful in their work on specific domains." --Jessica Berg, Case Western Reserve University "Readers will come away with an enriched sense of how consent works in a variety of human situations and with a new appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of the standard consent models in medicine and research. The book also does a good job of putting consent in perspective by highlighting consent's limited moral and legal force in various contexts. Given these virtues, bioethicists would be well advised to make room on their bookshelves for The Ethics of Consent." -- Hastings Center Report