Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: Despite an historic emphasis on protecting children from research risks, over the last few decades medicine has come to recognize the need to include children in systematic efforts to evaluate treatments in order to ensure their safe and effective medical care.In her new book, "Children in Medical Research: Access Versus Protection," Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, assesses the state of human subjects protections in pediatric research [1].Ethical analyses of U.S. federal regulations and research practices are supplemented by case studies and a rich variety of empirical data.Questioning whether federal policies and initiatives overemphasize access at the expense of adequate protection, Ross challenges the ethics of greater acceptable research risk for children with acute or chronic illness, critiques current policies on parental consent and child assent, discusses the debate regarding subject payment in pediatric research and examines the meaning of "prospect of direct benefit."
Source: The AMA Journal of Ethic
Author: Emily E. Anderson
Institution: American Medical Association
Language: English
Topic: Ethics in Clinical Research
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2201151827