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Developing a new justification for assent.
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BACKGROUND: Current guidelines do not clearly outline when assent should be attained from paediatric research participants, nor do they detail the necessary elements of the assent process. This stems from the fact that the fundamental justification behind the concept of assent is misunderstood. In this paper, we critically assess three widespread ethical arguments used for assent: children's rights, the best interests of the child, and respect for a child's developing autonomy. We then outlin...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/s12910-015-0085-x
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central
- Journal:
- BMC Med Ethics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 2
- Publication date:
- 2016-01-01
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1472-6939
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English
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pubs:584203
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pubs:584203
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- Sibley et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- Copyright © 2016 Sibley et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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