Informed Consent: Patient Autonomy and Physician Beneficence within Clinical Medicine (Clinical Medical Ethics) Review `Stephen Wear, in this fine monograph, understands fully the problems with patient autonomy and informed consent. In fact he outlines with clarity the problems with complete informed consent ... In addition to Wear's informed consent process and the studies either supporting or not supporting its prevalence this book offers the reader a basic outline of medical ethics in regard to informed consent ... I recommend this book with great enthusiasm.'  The Journal of Medical Humanities, 16:2, 1995