The ethics of pediatric research / David S. Wendler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wendler, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pediatrics--Research--Moral and ethical aspects.

Pediatrics.

Children--Health and hygiene.

Children.

Pediatrics--ethics.

Ethics, Medical.

Ethics, Research.

Medical Subjects:

Pediatrics--ethics.

Ethics, Medical.

Ethics, Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 337 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

David Wendler offers an original justification for pediatric research based on an in-depth analysis of when it is in our interests to help others. It will be of interest primarily to scholars in pediatric ethics and clinical research ethics.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""1 Introduction""; ""A Vaccine for Rotavirus""; ""The Prevalence of Nonbeneficial Pediatric Research""; ""Questioning the Acceptability of Nonbeneficial Pediatric Research""; ""Method of the Book""; ""Lessons Learned""; ""An Initial Example""; ""Outline of the Argument""; ""2 Background""; ""Scope of the Debate""; ""Terms of the Debate""; ""History of Abuses, Early Guidelines""; ""Current Regulations""; ""Efforts to Increase Pediatric Research""; ""The Legal Landscape""; ""The (Few) Legal Cases Involving Pediatric Research""; ""3 Evaluating the Worry""; ""Ramsey�s Argument""

""The Value of Consent""""When Is Consent Necessary?""; ""Why Is Consent Valuable?""; ""Clarifying the Worry""; ""McCormick�s Response""; ""The Negligible Risks Threshold""; ""The Risks of Daily Life Threshold""; ""The Routine Examinations Threshold""; ""Appeal to Long-term Benefits""; ""Helping Children as a Group""; ""4 Proposed Justifications""; ""The Argument Thus Far""; ""Utilitarianism as an Epithet""; ""The Scope of Parental Authority""; ""Teaching Children to Be Moral""; ""Children�s Moral Obligations""; ""The View from Behind the Veil of Ignorance""

""5 Human Interests and Human Causes""""Brief Recapitulation""; ""Three Conditions on an Acceptable Account""; ""Brief (and Prospective) Summary""; ""Three Questions Regarding Our Interests""; ""Five Categories of Interests""; ""All-Things-Considered Interests""; ""Interested-in versus In One�s Interests""; ""The Causal Nexus of Our Lives""; ""The Personal Significance of Making a Contribution: Five Factors""; ""6 Our Connection to our Contributions""; ""The Present Chapter""; ""Our (Tenuous?) Connection to Childhood""; ""The Value of Youthful Contributions""; ""Saying Something Positive""

""Are Contributions Necessarily Active?""""7 The Value of Passive Contributions""; ""Striving versus Contributing""; ""The Causal Asymmetry Thesis""; ""In the Valley of the Kings""; ""The Virtuous KKK Member""; ""Nazi-era Children""; ""The Reluctant Propagandist""; ""The Normative Asymmetry Thesis""; ""Contributing without Trying""; ""Children in Opera, Infants at Political Rallies""; ""The Calamitous Discovery""; ""The Ubiquity of Competing Considerations""; ""Making Decisions for Children""; ""The Value of Making a Contribution""; ""8 Implications""

""Limits on the Personal Value of Passive Contributions""""Moral Claims on Third Parties""; ""The Necessity of Value""; ""Minimal Risks and Sliding Scales""; ""Exceptional Cases""; ""Adults and Older Children First""; ""Children Helping Adults""; ""9 Objections and the Potential for Abuse""; ""You Will Eat Your Spinach""; ""The Unfairness of It All""; ""What Happened to Autonomy?""; ""Giving Comfort to Scoundrels?""; ""The Potential for Abuse""; ""Worries about Distribution""; ""10 Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-54441-1

9786612544415

0-19-974950-7

OCLC:

690104986