Behind closed doors
Subtitle: IRBs and the making of ethical research
By: Laura Stark
Series: Morality and society series; Morality and society
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780226770864; 9780226770871
Subjects: Government policy; Medical ethics; Institutional review boards (Medicine); History; Human experimentation in medicine; Research
Description: Drwaing on extensive archival sources, Laura Stark reconstructs the daily lives of scientists, lawyers, administrators, and research subjects working - and 'warring' - on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, where they first wrote the rules for the treatment of human subjects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: IRBs in action; title: Everyone's an expert? Warrants for expertise; title: Local precedents; title: Documents and deliberations: an anticipatory perspective; title: Setting IRBs in motion in Cold War America; title: An ethics of place; title: The many forms of consent; title: Deflecting responsibility; title: Conclusion: the making of ethical research.