TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halpern,Sydney A.
TI  - Lesser harms: the morality of risk in medical research 
T2  - Morality and society series
SN  - 9780226314532 (electronic bk.)
AV  - R853.H8 H357 2004eb
U1  - 174.2/8 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Human experimentation in medicine
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Research
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Poliomyelitis vaccine
KW  - Ethics, Research
KW  - Biomedical Research
KW  - History
KW  - Poliovirus Vaccines
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Ethics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Onderzoek
KW  - gtt
KW  - Ethische aspecten
KW  - სამედიცინო პერსონალი
KW  - ეთიკა
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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