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Rethinking the Ethics of Clinical Research$
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Alan Wertheimer

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9780199743513

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199743513.001.0001

Preface to a Theory of Consent Transactions in Research: Beyond Valid Consent

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(p. 45 ) 3 Preface to a Theory of Consent Transactions in Research: Beyond Valid Consent1
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Rethinking the Ethics of Clinical Research
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Alan Wertheimer

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199743513.003.0003

This chapter first asks whether informed consent is a necessary condition for ethical research and then questions the dominant—autonomous authorization—model of informed consent. Rather than focus on the subject's state of mind, a theory of consent should understand consent as a bi-lateral transaction. From that perspective, some problems, such as the therapeutic misconception, may be less important than commonly thought.

Keywords:   informed consent, autonomy, consequentialism, therapeutic misconception, Kant

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