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assent
Medical ethics Agreement by a minor or other person not competent to give legally valid informed consent–eg, a child or cognitively impaired person–to participate in research. Cf Informed consent.


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But assuming that every health-care facility can include both dissenters and assenters ignores the reality that some institutions--especially religious ones--may define themselves according to shared values, and refuse certain services as a matter of collective conscience.
 
 
 
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