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This chapter will first take up a critical revision of some premises endorsed in the course of the debate outlined above. It will then turn to the most recent arguments on the matter and will seek to lay the foundation for a sound ethical and anthropological rationale, justifying the qualified permissibility of employing incompetent subjects in experimentation that, while holding out no immediate benefit to them, redounds to the good of others.
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Mazur, G. (2012). Analysis. In: Informed Consent, Proxy Consent, and Catholic Bioethics. Philosophy and Medicine(), vol 112. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2196-8_10
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