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Health Researchers' Ancillary Care Obligations in Low-Resource Settings: How Can We Tell What Is Morally Required?

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: Health researchers working in low-resource settings often encounter serious unmet health needs among participants. What is the nature and extent of researchers' obligations to respond to such needs? Competing accounts have been proposed, but there is no independent standard by which to assess them or to guide future inquiry. I propose an independent standard and demonstrate its use. In conclusion I recommend two areas of focus for future inquiry: what makes an account of researchers' obligations reasonable from the standpoint of both participants and researchers and how general duties of rescue apply to researchers' resource-allocation decision making in low-resource settings.

Source: Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal

DOI: 10.1353/ken.2011.0019

Author: Maria W. Merritt

Institutions: Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Language: English

Topic: Ethics in Clinical Research

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Award: Ancillary Care in Community-Based Research: Deciding What to Do