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As the earlier chapters of this study have shown, research may be classified as therapeutic when it is beneficial to its subjects or as nontherapeutic when it does not bring about any medical advantage to those involved as subjects. With a focus on the therapeutic setting, this chapter outlines the most commonly accepted standards for proxy decision making, while the next chapter analyses these standards and seeks to determine the ultimate reason justifying proxy consent in research according to sound Christian anthropology and moral theory.
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Mazur, G. (2012). Standards for Proxy Consent in the Therapeutic Situation. 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_5
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