In Hollywood Babylon, we have a scene at the beginning that seems like rape, or at best, dubious consent, but the character isn't acknowledging what is happening.
There is a variety of additional tools and strategies for researchers to deliver the best informed consent to their potential participants, including a community based team, public communication, and concise summaries of the ICFs-leaflets used for the purpose of informing and involving participants actively in the best possible way.
No consensus seems to exist on a theoretical level whether 'blanket consents', 'specific consents', 'no consents' or 'broad consents' fit best as a consent model for balancing the interest of donors and research in the best possible way.
Left unresolved was the underlying question of how scientists can best obtain "informed consent" from patients whose education and command of English may be limited.
If there are lessons to be drawn from the still tentative successes here, they are that small projects often work best, that the consent and participation of local people are essential and that even baby steps take years.
By means of an overall strategy and model of communication, shared decision-making and balanced legal protection, one will be able to implement the best possible informed consent, founded on a "process-based" vision.
Which of the two models can cope best with this consent issue: Pure Choice or Public Health Pluralism?
For instance, what remains unclear is how to best obtain informed consent for long-term sample re-use when future uses are not currently known [ 10, 11].
This could have induced some biases if researchers did not conform to this instruction (e.g., if they sent us their "best" or "worse" consent forms).
We subsequently confronted these experiences with existing theoretical ethical concepts about (pediatric) research, namely goals of research, informed consent, best interests, equipoise and therapeutic misconception.
