Title: What the doctor didn't say : the hidden truth about medical research /
Authors: Menikoff, Jerry; Richards, Edward P.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Therapeutic Human Experimentation legislation & jurisprudence; Clinical Trials as Topic ethics; Informed Consent; Clinical trials.; Informed consent (Medical law); Human experimentation in medicine.
Contents: The dilemma of human research -- The nature of research -- A case study: the difference between being a patient and being a research subject -- How the law protects patients who get nonstandard care -- The weakened legal protections given to research subjects -- How bad for the subjects can a study be? -- What informed consent requires -- The anatomy of a consent form -- The good, the bad, and the ugly research study: from consent to choice -- The hidden alternative -- Incompetent adults -- Emergency research -- Children in research: the basic rules -- Can children be enrolled in studies that are bad for them? -- Research and reproduction -- Should research subjects be paid? -- Compensating researchers: dealing with conflicts of interest -- Where do we go from here? The paradox of pediatric cancer research.