Full Description
Human experimentation is essential to advance scientific knowledge and thereby improve the longevity and quality of human lives. This text covers some of the legal, technical, ethical and moral problems raised by human experimentation.
Contents
Part I Historical and Philosophical Foundationsreflections on experimenting with human subjects, H. Jonas (1969); experimenting on human subjects - philosophical perspectives, R. Macklin & S. Sherwin (1975); principlism and the ethical appraisal of clinical trials, E.M. Meslin, H.J. Sutherland, J.V. Lavery & J.E. Till (1995); the Nuremberg code in light of previous principles and practices in human experimentation, D.J. Rothman (1998); Nuremberg's legacy - some ethical reflections, J.F. Childress (2000); the controversy over retrospective moral judgment, A. Buchanan (1996); looking back and judging our predecessors, T.L. Beauchamp (1996); when evil intrudes, A.L. Caplan (1992); shading the truth in seeking informed consent for research purposes, S. Bok (1995); trust, the fragile foundation of contemporary biomedical research, N.E. Kass, J. Sugarman, R. Faden & M. Schoch-Spana (1996); questing for grails - duplicity, betrayal and self-deception in postmodern medical research, G.J. Annas (1996); roles and fictions in clinical and research ethics, D.N. Weisstub (1996). Part II Protecting Human Subjects: human experimentation and human rights, J. Katz (1993); the social control of human biomedical research - an overview and review of the literature, P.R. Benson (1989); goodbye to all that - the end of moderate protectionism in human subjects research, J.D. Moreno (2001); is national, independent oversight needed for the protection of human subjects?, A.M. Capron (1999); national, independent oversight - reinforcing the safety net for human subjects research, A.C. Mastroianni (1999); regulating research for the decisionally impaired - implications for mental health professionals, M.B. Kapp (2002). (Part contents)
