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[[Informed Consent]] is a legal term and ethical principle that describes biological ethics, which was introduced after World War II. It replaced the earlier medical attitudes that were founded on having implicit trust in a doctor’s decisions, and put patients in charge of their own care. [[Informed Consent]] is the process for getting permission before involving that person in some kind of situation that impacts bodily health or wellbeing, usually related to medical research or clinical experiments, such as being informed of the potential risks of a therapy or drug, and giving informed consent before being provided with it.  Informed consent can be said to be given, when a person has been educated to understand the facts and considers the implication and possible consequences of an action, which will impact them. Therefore the term informed consent is an ethical and legal principle in which a person exercises their right to gather more data for analysis and perform their own due diligence, to better understand the facts and consequences of making a choice that impacts them. '''Informed consent is directly related to preserving a human beings right to self-ownership, autonomy and the prevention of abusive conduct.'''