Lesser harms [electronic resource] : the morality of risk in medical research / Sydney A. Halpern.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Morality and societyPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 232 p.)ISBN:- 9780226314532 (electronic bk.)
- 0226314537 (electronic bk.)
- Human experimentation in medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
- Medicine -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
- Medicine -- Research -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Poliomyelitis vaccine -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
- Ethics, Research
- Biomedical Research -- History
- Poliovirus Vaccines -- History
- MEDICAL -- Ethics
- Onderzoek
- Ethische aspecten
- სამედიცინო პერსონალი ეთიკა
- 174.2/8 22
- R853.H8 H357 2004eb
- 2004 N-084
- W 20.5
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-222) and index.
Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The origins of a moral logic of risk -- 2. Negotiating moral boundaries : the polio vaccines of 1934-1935 -- 3. Research sponsors and the culture of risk -- 4. Formalizing responses to research hazards -- 5. The social nature of moral action -- 6. Moral traditions in an era of government oversight -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Research physicians face intractable dilemmas when they consider introducing new medical procedures. Innovations carry the promise of preventing or curing life-threatening diseases, but they can also lead to injury or even death. How have clinical scientists made high-stakes decisions about undertaking human tests of new medical treatments? In Lesser Harms, Sydney Halpern explores this issue as she examines vaccine trials in America during the early and mid-twentieth century. Today's scientists follow federal guidelines for research on human subjects developed during the 1960s and 1970s. But lo.
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