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Patient Consent, the Anaesthetic Nurse and the Peri-operative Environment: Irish Law and Informed Consent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2009

Brenda Daly*
Affiliation:
School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Ireland
*
Correspondence to: Dr Brenda Daly, Lecturer in Law, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Ireland. Tel: 00353-1-700-8154, Fax: 00353-1-700-7374, E-mail: brenda.daly@dcu.ie
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