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Without Informed Consent

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  • Sara Belfrage

    (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

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The requirement of always obtaining participants’ informed consent in research with human subjects cannot always be met, for a variety of reasons. This paper describes and categorises research situations where informed consent is unobtainable. Some of these kinds of situations, common in biomedicine and psychology, have been previously discussed, whereas others, for example, those more prevalent in infrastructure research, introduce new perspectives. The advancement of new technology may lead to an increase in research of these kinds. The paper also provides a review of methods intended to compensate for lack of consent, and their applicability and usefulness for the different categories of situations are discussed. The aim of this is to provide insights into one important aspect of the question of permitting research without informed consent, namely, how well that which informed consent is meant to safeguard can be achieved by other means.

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  • Sara Belfrage, 2011. "Without Informed Consent," International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), IGI Global, vol. 2(3), pages 48-61, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jt0000:v:2:y:2011:i:3:p:48-61
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