Research on human subjects : ethics, law, and social policy
Addresses the key implications of experimentation on humans. This volume covers major ethical themes within biomedical research providing historical, philosophical, legal and policy reflections on the literature and specific issues in the field of research on human subjects.
Print Book, English, 1998
Pergamon, Kidlington, Oxford, UK, 1998
xxvi, 658 pages ; 25 cm
9780080434346, 0080434347
39625198
Ch. 1. The ethical parameters of experimentation
Ch. 2. Bringing ethics to human experimentation: the American experience
Ch. 3. Beyond consent
Ch. 4. Roles in clinical and research ethics
Ch. 5. The concept of goodness in medical research: an action-theoretic approach
Ch. 6. Drawing the distinction between therapeutic research and non-therapeutic experimentation: clearing a way through the definitional thicket. Ch. 7. The distinction between "clinical practice" and "research": the case of pituitary derived hormones and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Ch. 8. "Consensual" research with cognitively impaired adults: resolving legal shortcomings in adult guardianship
Ch. 9. French law and biomedical research: a practical experiment
Ch. 10. Consent to human experimentation in Quebec: the application of the civil law principle of personal inviolability to protect special populations. Ch. 11. The advance directive in research: prospects and pitfalls
Ch. 12. The regulation of human experimentation: historical and contemporary perspectives
Ch. 13. International trends in research regulation: science as negotiation
Ch. 14. Models for regulating research: the council of Europe and international trends
Ch. 15. Research ethics committees and the principle of justice: putting ethics and law to the test. Ch. 16. The institutional review board: Its origins, purpose, function, and future
Ch. 17. The regulation of biomedical experimentation in Canada: developing an effective apparatus for the implementation of ethical principles in a scientific milieu
Ch. 18. Establishing the boundaries of ethically permissible research with vulnerable populations
Ch. 19. Biomedical experimentation with children: balancing the need for protective measures with the need to respect children's developing ability to make significant life decisions for themselves. Ch. 20. Biomedical experimentation involving elderly subjects: the need to balance limited, benevolent protection with recognition of a long history of autonomous decision-making
Ch. 21. Ethical research with vulnerable populations: the mentally disordered
Ch. 22. Ethics in psychiatric research with incompetent patients
Ch. 23. The conditions of personhood as applied to incompetent persons
Ch. 24. Ethical research with vulnerable populations: the developmentally disabled. Ch. 25. Ethics in research with detained individuals
Ch. 26. Prisoners as subjects of biomedical experimentation: examining the arguments for and against a total ban
Ch. 27. Ethical questions pertaining to the use of placebos
Ch. 28. Resolving the inherent dissonance between the doctor's roles as healer and researcher: a proposal
Ch. 29. Ethical issues in epidemiological research
Ch. 30. Ethical guidelines for epidemiological research
Ch. 31. Epidemiology and the ownership of health data: ethical, legal and social aspects