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Legal and Ethical Issues: Consent

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Alison Britton is a Senior Lecturer specialising in healthcare, clinical negligence and mental health law at Glasgow Caledonian University, where she also teaches professional ethics at doctoral level. She has just completed a seven year tenure as Head of Learning, Teaching and Quality for the School of Law and Social Sciences. Alison skilfully pilots the listener through the issues of consent using landmark cases to inform its development. She also examines the issues of consent and withholding consent on some vulnerable groups.