Canterbury v. Spence

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A landmark case which gave medical and legal currency to the ‘reasonable person’ standard in informed consent; the case was brought by Mr. Canterbury, who became paralyzed after a laminectomy, to which he claimed he would not have consented, had he known that the procedure carried a 1% risk of paralysis

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