%0 Journal Article %T CONSENTIMIENTO INFORMADO, UNA VISI¨®N PANOR¨¢MICA %A de la Maza Gazmuri %A I£¿igo %J Ius et Praxis %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-00122010000200004 %X informed consent is a key complex and strongly debated, issue in medical liability in contrast to many other countries, in the chilean case we lack a statute that requires health professionals to provide material information to patients in order to allow them to fully exercises their autonomy we also lack a significant corpus of judicial decisions in this regar¨¢, and, finally chilean scholars have not devoted their best efforts to develop the topic. the aim of this work is to provide a synoptic view of informed consent, its justif£¿cati¨®n and some of the most debated issues about it. %K informed consent %K medical liability %K autonomy %K information. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-00122010000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en