Unethical governance: capacity legislation and the exclusion of people diagnosed with dementias from research

Research Ethics 17 (3):298-308 (2020)
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This paper considers the potential for the Mental Capacity Act of England and Wales to incentivise the exclusion of people with dementia from research. The MCA is intended to standardise and...

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10.1177/1747016120982023

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