Ethical issues in research on substance-dependent parents: The risk of implicit normative judgements by researchers

When doing research among vulnerable populations, researchers are obliged to protect their subjects from harm. We will argue that traditional ethical guidelines are not sufficient to do this, since they mainly focus on direct harms that can occur: for example, issues around informed consent, fair re...

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Authors: Snoek, Anke (Author) ; Horstkötter, Dorothee (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [2018]
In: Bioethics
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 9, Pages: 620-627
IxTheo Classification:NCH Medical ethics
NCJ Ethics of science
Further subjects:B Addiction
B Epistemic injustice
B parental substance dependency
B normative judgements
B research ethics
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