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    Children in Medical Research by Ross, Lainie Friedman;

    Access versus Protection

    Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 9 February 2006

    • ISBN 9780199273287
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages300 pages
    • Size 242x161x24 mm
    • Weight 600 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Lainie Ross presents a rigorous critical investigation of the development of policy governing the involvement of children in medical research. She examines the shift in focus from protection of medical research subjects, enshrined in post-World War II legislation, to the current era in which access is assuming greater precedence. Infamous studies such as Willowbrook (where mentally retarded children were infected with hepatitis) are evidence that before the policy shift protection was not always adequate, even for the most vulnerable groups. Additional safeguards for children were first implemented in many countries in the 1970s and 1980s; more recent policies and guidelines are trying to promote greater participation. Ross examines whether the safeguards work, whether they are fair, and how they apply in actual research practice, and she offers specific recommendations to modify current policies and guidelines.

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    Lainie Ross presents a rigorous critical investigation of the development of policy governing the involvement of children in medical research. She examines the shift in focus from protection of medical research subjects, enshrined in post-World War II legislation, to the current era in which access is assuming greater precedence. Infamous studies such as Willowbrook (where mentally retarded children were infected with hepatitis) are evidence that before the policy shift protection was not always adequate, even for the most vulnerable groups. Additional safeguards for children were first implemented in many countries in the 1970s and 1980s; more recent policies and guidelines are trying to promote greater participation. Ross considers whether the safeguards work, whether they are fair, and how they apply in actual research practice. She goes on to offer specific recommendations to modify current policies and guidelines.
    Ross examines the regulatory structures (e.g. federal regulations and institutional review boards), the ad hoc policies (e.g. payment in pediatric research and the role of schools as research venues), the actual practices of researchers (e.g. the race/ethnicity of enrolled research subjects or the decision to enroll newborns) as well as the decision-making process (both parental permission and the child's assent), in order to provide a broad critique. Some of her recommendations will break down current barriers to the enrolment of children (e.g. permitting the payment of child research subjects; allowing healthy children to be exposed to research that entails more than minimal risk without requiring recourse to 407 panels); whereas other recommendations may create new restrictions (e.g., the need for greater protection for research performed in schools; restrictions on what research should be done in the newborn nursery). The goal is to ensure that medical research is done in a way that promotes the health of current and future children without threatening, to use the words of Hans Jonas, 'the erosion of those moral values whose loss . . . would make its most dazzling triumphs not worth having'.

    [A] very informative publication...The book presents an excellent overview over problems in paediatric research and the ethical and legal issues to be addressed.

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    Table of Contents:

    I. Access versus Protection
    From 1966 to 2005: Balancing Protection and Access in Pediatric Research
    Access versus Protection: Minority Representation in Pediatric Research
    II. Challenges to the Regulations
    Overview of the Common Rule and Subpart D
    Should We Provide Healthy Children with Greater Protection in Medical Research?
    Informed Consent in Pediatric Research
    Phase I Research and the Meaning of 'Prospect of Direct Benefit'
    III. Strengths and Limits of Current Regulations
    Human Subjects Protections in Published Pediatric Research
    Payment in Pediatric Research
    Research in Schools
    IV. Case Studies
    Minimizing Risks: Diabetes Research in Newborns
    Diabetes Prediction and Prevention Research in Childhood
    Lead Abatement Research
    Clinical Asthma Trials
    Research Not Otherwise Approvable: A Look at One Protocol
    Evolution of the 407 Process
    Epilogue

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