Call for moral recognition as part of paediatric assent.
Call for moral recognition as part of paediatric assent.
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DOI:
10.1136/jme-2023-109013
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发表时间:
2023-07
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
Blumenthal-Barby, Jennifer
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作者:
Smith, Jared;Blumenthal-Barby, Jennifer
In ‘Reification and Assent in Research Involving Those Who Lack Capacity’, Smajdor argues that adults with impaired capacity to grant informed consent (AWIC) are often excluded from participating in biomedical research because they cannot provide informed consent, leading to decreased chances AWIC will benefit from such research. Smajdor uses Honneth’s concept of reification to propose that securing assent (rather than consent) in cases involving AWIC offers patients moral recognition that is not tied to their capacities. Assent provides this recognition by including the patient in a shared moral sphere, highlighting her agency and worth without reducing her to her incapacity or a thing-to-bemanaged. Assent also avoids grounding in, or a reliance on, the future development of autonomy (pp. 5–6). 1 Our recent research on patient and caregiver perspectives of potential paediatric deep brain stimulation(pDBS) for refractory obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and dystonia demonstrates that paediatric neurosurgery patients desire the kind of recognition Smajdor associates with assent, and their caregivers largely agree. 2 3 Since (generally) paediatric patients in the USA are unable to grant informed consent, their caregivers must provide it instead. This raises the question of how to properly integrate paediatric patients into the DBS decision-making process. One dimension along which this is evident is that many patients expressed that they would want to be involved in the decision-making process if they were considering pDBS, even when these patients acknowledge that their caregivers had the final say. The desire to participate in the decision-making itself is a demand for recognition—that nothing be done to me without my input. When asked how they would want to be involved, one patient remarked:‘I wouldn’t want my parents to make decisions for me based on… because I’m the one who is going to have to live with it. So I guess, just being present in what the doctor has to say and being educated on what it’s going to do. I would want to know everything about it if it’s going to be in my brain,’(PT15).
影响因子:
4.1
作者:
Smajdor, Anna
通讯作者:
Smajdor, Anna
影响因子:
7.7
作者:
Muñoz KA;Kostick K;Torgerson L;Zuk P;Kalwani L;Sanchez C;Blumenthal-Barby J;Storch EA;Lázaro-Muñoz G
通讯作者:
Lázaro-Muñoz G
影响因子:
1.8
作者:
Munoz, Katrina A.;Blumenthal-Barby, Jennifer;Storch, Eric A.;Torgerson, Laura;Lazaro-Munoz, Gabriel
通讯作者:
Lazaro-Munoz, Gabriel