Trials--And Errors / Sharon Begley and Donna Foote.
by Begley, Sharon; Foote, Donna; wilson, Duff; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 16Human Relations. Publisher: Newsweek, 2001; Knight-Ridder, 2001ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Clinical trials | Drugs -- Testing | Health risk assessment | Human experimentation in medicine | Medical ethics | Informed consent (Medical law) | Medical ethicsDDC classification: 050 Summary: TRIALS--AND ERRORS -- "Experiments on human volunteers are crucial to biomedical progress. But do they pose an unacceptable risk?" (NEWSWEEK) This article examines whether experimental clinical trials on human volunteers expose patients to unacceptable risks without their consent.Summary: PATIENTS PARTICIPATING IN MEDICAL TRIALS SHOULD UNDERSTAND CONSEQUENCES FULLY -- "The bedrock ethic of any human reserach is that a patient must fully understand an experiment before participating in it. Yet the nation's top enforcer of human-research ethics says that the biggest problem in research today is that, often, this is not happening." (THE SEATTLE TIMES) This article reveals concern by ethicists over clinical trial experiments that do not fully disclose risks to patients.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: Trials--And Errors, Aug. 6, 2001; pp. 38-42.
Originally Published: Patients Participating in Medical Trials Should Understand..., March 19, 2001; pp. n.p..
TRIALS--AND ERRORS -- "Experiments on human volunteers are crucial to biomedical progress. But do they pose an unacceptable risk?" (NEWSWEEK) This article examines whether experimental clinical trials on human volunteers expose patients to unacceptable risks without their consent.
PATIENTS PARTICIPATING IN MEDICAL TRIALS SHOULD UNDERSTAND CONSEQUENCES FULLY -- "The bedrock ethic of any human reserach is that a patient must fully understand an experiment before participating in it. Yet the nation's top enforcer of human-research ethics says that the biggest problem in research today is that, often, this is not happening." (THE SEATTLE TIMES) This article reveals concern by ethicists over clinical trial experiments that do not fully disclose risks to patients.
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