RT Journal A1 Travaline J T1 Informed consent, proxy consent, and catholic bioethics: For the good of the subject JF JAMA JO JAMA YR 2012 FD October 10 VO 308 IS 14 SP 1484 OP 1484 DO 10.1001/jama.308.14.1484 UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.308.14.1484 AB In Informed Consent, Proxy Consent, and Catholic Bioethics, one of a collection of works in the Catholic Studies in Bioethics subseries of Springer's Philosophy and Medicine series, Grzegorz Mazur plumbs the depths of bioethics, uncovering not only the historical elements of the principle of free and informed consent but also revealing irreducible realities on which this principle rests.