Legal and Ethical Complexities of Consent with Cognitively Impaired Research Subjects: Proposed Guidelines

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 24 (1):18-35 (1996)
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Abstract

When science takes man as its subject, tensions arise between two values basic to Western society: freedom of scientific inquiry and protection of individual inviolability.... At the heart of this conflict lies an age-old question: When may a society, actively or by acquiescence, expose some of its members to harm in order to seek benefits for them, for others, or for society as a whole?

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