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DO NO HARM—DO PATIENTS HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES TOO?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2006

Margaret Brazier
Affiliation:
Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, University of Manchester.

Abstract

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TOWARDS the end of his judgment in R. v. Collins and Ashworth Hospital Authority ex p. Brady,Kay J. (as he then was) delivered the following homily: it would seem to me a matter of deep regret if the law has developed to a point in this area where the rights of a patient count for everything and other ethical values and institutional integrity count for nothing.

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Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 2006