The censor's hand : the misregulation of human-subject research / Carl E. Schneider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schneider, Carl, 1948- author.

Series:

Basic bioethics.

Basic Bioethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human experimentation in medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human experimentation in medicine.

Bioethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Medical and social progress depend on research with human subjects. When that research is done in institutions getting federal money, it is regulated by federally required and supervised bureaucracies called 'institutional review boards' expected to apply bioethical principles in making decisions. Do - can - these administrative agencies do more harm than good? This book answers this fundamental but long-unasked question by consulting a critical experience - the law's learning about regulation - and by amassing the empirical evidence scattered around many literatures.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Series Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: More Good than Harm""; ""1 Research Risk and Regulationist Stereotypes""; ""2 Cost Is No Object""; ""Part II: The Quality of IRB Decisions""; ""3 Arbitrary and Capricious Decisions""; ""4 The Misshapen Ideology of the IRB System""; ""5 The Rule of Law: The Lessons of Due Process""; ""6 Censorship in a System of Free Expression""; ""Conclusion: The Imperial IRB""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""Basic Bioethics Series List""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

907951325