Tutorial Debate: Research Ethics Statement: Children under 12 years of age should be excluded from all health care research due to their lack of capacity to consent. Please write the first speaker...

Tutorial Debate: Research Ethics Statement: Children under 12 years of age should be excluded from all health care research due to their lack of capacity to consent. Please write the first speaker introduction on the following statement: Negative Team "Children under 12 years shouldn’t be excluded from all health care research due to their lack of capacity to consent" Relate argument in introdution to the following: 3. medical research is good when guided by principles • Welfare, protection, provision, choice & participation (Powell et al) • Govern conduct of research And relate to the following theories: RELATED THEORIES - 4 principles of ethics o Non-maleficence Harmful therapies adopted either without evidence or extrapolated from experience with adults o beneficence - Natural law o Health is a “basic good” - Personhood? o What makes a person o May be becoming a person - Child is not a person yet so the mother has to consent - Utilitarian o Small sacrifice for the Common good - Distributive justice o For all not just one - DEONTOLOGY o the right thing to do Things to look at - Declaration of Helsinki - UN Convention on the Right of the Child DEBATE LAYOUT First Speaker - SARAH - Introduction - Definition: agree, amend, or reject definition of Affirmative. If reject then justify. - Rebuttal - Introduction of speakers (Team Split) - Arguments, reasons and evidence - Summary of own case - Conclusion