MEETING ABSTRACT Open Access Informed consent and minors

The provision of informed consent by a patient should be the end point of a process of engagement in which one or more health practitioners have supported the patient to come to an informed decision to agree to the healthcare offered. Informed consent is a means to comply with the principle of respect for the person in a healthcare context. This act can be alternatively interpreted according to a lib-ertarian perspective or according to a more solidaristic one [1]. According to the former perspective, informed consent is tightly linked to the idea that every person is the proprietor of their own body with which they have the absolute right to decide whatever they want done to it. This view leads to the construction of the patient physi-cian relationship founded on a contractual basis. Accord-ing to the latter perspective, respect for the person implie