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The censor's hand: the misregulation of human-subject research

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780262028912, 9780262328784, 026232878X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1947107 bytes)
Series
Basic bioethics
Pages
xxx, 257 pages\292
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

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.;Research risk and regulationist stereotypes -- Cost is no object -- Arbitrary and capricious decisions -- The misshapen ideology of the IRB system -- The rule of law -- Censorship in a system of free expression.

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