The concept of the informed consent in the western sociology of medicine
Special procedures of protection of the patient's rights are developed in bioethics. The first and the basic of such procedures is documentary registration of the informed consent of the patient on the treatment offered. In the American legislation it has been developed three standards to define character and quantity of the information which should be opened: the standard professional experts, the standard objective or the reasonable person' and subjective standard. Sociological researches about preference of the certain standard were not carried out in Russia yet.