Incompetent Persons as Research Subjects and the Ethics of Minimal Risk

The voluntary and informed consent of subjects has been the central focus of concern in research reviews, overshadowing the importance of all other considerations. The Nuremberg Code, with its rights-based protection of the subject's autonomy above all else, made it difficult to justify researc...

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Authors: Glass, Kathleen Cranley (Author) ; Speyer-Ofenberg, Marc (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1996
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 1996, Volume: 5, Issue: 3, Pages: 362-372
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Summary:The voluntary and informed consent of subjects has been the central focus of concern in research reviews, overshadowing the importance of all other considerations. The Nuremberg Code, with its rights-based protection of the subject's autonomy above all else, made it difficult to justify research with no intended benefit when subjects are incompetent to make a valid informed choice to participate. Subsequent codes providing for research with incompetent subjects followed the lead of Nuremberg, substituting the informed authorization of a proxy for the informed consent of the subject.
ISSN:1469-2147
Contains:Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0963180100007179