Prior to giving consent to the treatment of a physician, a patient has to receive, as prerequisite, the information on what his/her disease and the relevant treatment are. The Physician’s duty to inform his/her patients is the prerequisite for the patient’s consent.
  The medical ethics mainly deals with life and death of humans, while the notion of clinical ethics primarily deals with individual physicians and their professional ethics. Such issues dominate the field of clinical ethics as fraud on patients for medical purposes, patients’ refusal and consent, physician’s assistance in dying, the necessity and value of prior instruction and determination by the attorney-in-fact.
  Medical policies and ethics shall be considered as wee, since individual physicians have to determine their relations with patients within the institutional frame. Further, the ethics matter becomes more prominent when it comes to experiments with clinical trials on humans.
  Aware of the issues, this study intends to review what clinical conditions a clinical trial has to satisfy by reviewing the physician’s obligation to inform the patient from historic and ethical perspectives.

Ⅰ. 서론
Ⅱ. 설명의무의 개념과 연혁적 고찰
Ⅲ. 의료적 개입으로서 환자에 대한 설명
Ⅳ. 임상실무에서의 환자에 대한 설명의무
Ⅴ. 결론
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[Abstract]

환자의 자기결정권, 의사의 설명의무, 의료윤리, 임상윤리, self determination, informed consent, medical ethics, clinical ethics