Beyond Regulations

by King, Nancy M. P.; Henderson, Gail; Stein, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780807847701
• ISBN10: 0807847704
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Across a broad range of disciplines -- in medicine, social science, and the humanities -- researchers, scholars, teachers, and administrators increasingly are looking for new ways to approach ethical issues in research with human subjects. Questions about how relationships between funders and researchers should affect research design, for example, or whether the potential benefits of research can outweigh the importance of its subjects' interests are inadequately addressed by the prevailing, regulation-based research ethics paradigm.This book constitutes a reexamination of research ethics. It combines case studies and commentaries by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and researchers to explore such topics as informed consent, conflict of interest, confidentiality, and research on illegal behavior. All human subjects research takes place within complex social, cultural, and political contexts, the contributors argue. Increased consideration of the relationships between researchers and theirsubjects, funders, and institutions within these contexts will facilitate research that is sensitive and responsible as well as scientifically fruitful.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Relationships in Research: A New Paradigm

Essay Introduction Is Ethics Universal?: Gender, Science, and Culture in Reproductive Health Research

Contracts and Covenants Introduction Contract and Covenant in Curaaao: Reciprocal Relationships in Scholarly Research

Contract and Covenant in Ethnographic Research

The Gaze of Scholars and Subjects: Roles, Relationships, and Obligations in Ethnographic Research

Community-based HIV Research Introduction Community Assessment and Perceptions: Preparation for HIV Vaccine Efficacy

Community Advisory Board-Investigator Relationships in Community-Based HIV/AIDS Research

Research Partnerships and People

Corporate Sponsorship of Research Introduction Truth-in-funding: Studying the Infant-feeding Controversy with Industry Support

Bias and Conflicts of Interest in Science: Controversial Industry Funding of Infant-feeding Studies

Context and Community: Assessing the Ethics of Industry-funded Research

Risk and Trust in Abortion Research Introduction Research on Induced Abortion in Argentina: Avoiding Self-Incrimination

Research on Induced Abortion in Argentina: Avoiding Self-Incrimination

The Contexts of Social Research

Studying Maltreatment in Families Introduction Maltreatment in Families: A Research

Child Abuse Research: Can Ethical Standards Be the Same in Developed and Developing Countries?

Research in Distressed Families: How Should Societies Make Judgments about Parents and Children?

Whose Consent? Introduction Can Community Consultation Substitute for Informed Consent in Emergency Medicine Research?

Can Community Consultation Substitute for Informed Consent in Emergency Medicine Research?: A Response

Medical Research: Using a New Paradigm Where the Old Might Do

Conclusion

Regulations and Relationships: Toward a New Synthesis

Nuremberg Code

Federal Common Rule

CIOMS Epidemiological Research Guidelines

CIOMS Biomedical Research Guidelines

Contract between Alan Benjamin and Congregation Mikvé Israel-Emanuel

Letter from Alan Benjamin to the Congregation

References

Contributors

Index

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