A useful, thoughtful, timely and important book. . . . Wear sets himself the not immodest task of laying out 'a comprehensive sense of informed consent as an effective and needed tool for medical management'. . . . nuanced and clinically sensitive.

[Wear's] medical management model offers an important complement to theoretical and historical discussions of informed consent. . . . [his] experience as a clinical ethicist is refreshingly obvious.

Written in a clear, simple, and very practically oriented style. It provides dozens of helpful recommendations to practitioners regarding how to proceed in different situations.

"A useful, thoughtful, timely and important book. . . . Wear sets himself the not immodest task of laying out 'a comprehensive sense of informed consent as an effective and needed tool for medical management'. . . . nuanced and clinically sensitive."