• Internal medicine journal · Aug 2019

    Limits to consent in cosmetic interventions: an update.

    • HoldenAlexander C LACL0000-0002-5698-8973The University of Sydney School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. and Cameron Stewart.
    • The University of Sydney School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
    • Intern Med J. 2019 Aug 1; 49 (8): 102210251022-1025.

    AbstractThis update restates the legal limits of consent to medical treatment. It reviews the classic statement of law set down by the case of R v Brown, where 'proper medical treatment' was stated to be exempted from the ordinary laws of consent. This position has been recently developed further by the 2018 English case of R v BM where a non-medical body modification artist was convicted for having carried out substantive body modification procedures. This article considers how these developments may affect Australian law, particularly laws pertaining to cosmetic procedures.© 2019 Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

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