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Children in Medical Research - Access versus Protection (Hardcover)
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Children in Medical Research - Access versus Protection (Hardcover)
Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics
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Lainie Ross presents a rigorous critical investigation of the
development of policy governing the involvement of children in
medical research. She examines the shift in focus from protection
of medical research subjects, enshrined in post-World War II
legislation, to the current era in which access is assuming greater
precedence. Infamous studies such as Willowbrook (where mentally
retarded children were infected with hepatitis) are evidence that
before the policy shift protection was not always adequate, even
for the most vulnerable groups. Additional safeguards for children
were first implemented in many countries in the 1970s and 1980s;
more recent policies and guidelines are trying to promote greater
participation. Ross considers whether the safeguards work, whether
they are fair, and how they apply in actual research practice. She
goes on to offer specific recommendations to modify current
policies and guidelines. Ross examines the regulatory structures
(e.g. federal regulations and institutional review boards), the ad
hoc policies (e.g. payment in pediatric research and the role of
schools as research venues), the actual practices of researchers
(e.g. the race/ethnicity of enrolled research subjects or the
decision to enroll newborns) as well as the decision-making process
(both parental permission and the child's assent), in order to
provide a broad critique. Some of her recommendations will break
down current barriers to the enrolment of children (e.g. permitting
the payment of child research subjects; allowing healthy children
to be exposed to research that entails more than minimal risk
without requiring recourse to 407 panels); whereas other
recommendations may create new restrictions (e.g., the need for
greater protection for research performed in schools; restrictions
on what research should be done in the newborn nursery). The goal
is to ensure that medical research is done in a way that promotes
the health of current and future children without threatening, to
use the words of Hans Jonas, 'the erosion of those moral values
whose loss . . . would make its most dazzling triumphs not worth
having'.
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