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Justice is foundational to discussion, debate, and policy making
surrounding biomedical research. Time-tested for more than 20
years, Beyond Consent examines the concept of justice and its
application to research with human subjects, through multiple
lenses of research populations of people who are sick (including
those needing emergency medical care), cognitively impaired,
children, captive and convenient (such as prisoners), women, racial
minorities, communities, and living in international settings. This
second edition includes new chapters on today's leading-edge topics
as well as updated chapters that consider what has changed, and
what new matters have arisen. The result is a fresh treatment of
the latest issues and concepts of justice in research examined by
multidisciplinary scholars. This volume is a vital resource for
students and scholars of bioethics, medicine, and public health
policy; as well as for members of institutional review boards,
research administrators, and policy makers.
Research with human subjects has long been controversial because of
the conflicts that often arise between promoting scientific
knowledge and protecting the rights and welfare of subjects.
Twenty-five years ago the National Commission for the Protection of
Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research addressed
these conflicts. The result was the Belmont Report: Ethical
Principles and Guidance for Research Involving Human Subjects, a
report that identified foundational principles for ethical research
with human subjects: respect for persons, beneficence, and justice.
Since the publication of Belmont, these three principles have
greatly influenced discussions of research with human subjects.
While they are often regarded as the single-most influential set of
guidelines for biomedical research and practice in the United
States (and other parts of the world), not everyone agrees that
they provide adequate guidance. Belmont Revisited brings together a
stellar group of scholars in bioethics to revisit the findings of
that original report. Their responses constitute a broad overview
of the development of the Belmont Report and the extent of its
influence, especially on governmental commissions, as well as an
assessment of its virtues and shortcomings. Belmont Revisited looks
back to reexamine the creation and influence of the Belmont Report,
and also looks forward to the future of research - with a strong
call to rethink how institutions and investigators can conduct
research more ethically.
Natural disasters and cholera outbreaks. Ebola, SARS, and concerns
over pandemic flu. HIV and AIDS. E. coli outbreaks from
contaminated produce and fast foods. Threats of bioterrorism.
Contamination of compounded drugs. Vaccination refusals and
outbreaks of preventable diseases. These are just some of the
headlines from the last 30-plus years highlighting the essential
roles and responsibilities of public health, all of which come with
ethical issues and the responsibilities they create. Public health
has achieved extraordinary successes. And yet these successes also
bring with them ethical tension. Not all public health successes
are equally distributed in the population; extraordinary health
disparities between rich and poor still exist. The most successful
public health programs sometimes rely on policies that, while
improving public health conditions, also limit individual rights.
Public health practitioners and policymakers face these and other
questions of ethics routinely in their work, and they must navigate
their sometimes competing responsibilities to the health of the
public with other important societal values such as privacy,
autonomy, and prevailing cultural norms. This Oxford Handbook
provides a sweeping and comprehensive review of the current state
of public health ethics, addressing these and numerous other
questions. Taking account of the wide range of topics under the
umbrella of public health and the ethical issues raised by them,
this volume is organized into fifteen sections. It begins with two
sections that discuss the conceptual foundations, ethical tensions,
and ethical frameworks of and for public health and how public
health does its work. The thirteen sections that follow examine the
application of public health ethics considerations and approaches
across a broad range of public health topics. While chapters are
organized into topical sections, each chapter is designed to serve
as a standalone contribution. The book includes 73 chapters
covering many topics from varying perspectives, a recognition of
the diversity of the issues that define public health ethics in the
U.S. and globally. This Handbook is an authoritative and
indispensable guide to the state of public health ethics today.
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