Synopses & Reviews
Across a broad range of disciplinesin medicine, social science, and the humanitiesresearchers, scholars, teachers, and administrators increasingly are looking for new ways to approach ethical issues in research with human subjects. Questions about how relationships between funders and researchers should affect research design, for example, or whether the potential benefits of research can outweigh the importance of its subjects' interests are inadequately addressed by the prevailing, regulation-based research ethics paradigm.
This book constitutes a reexamination of research ethics. It combines case studies and commentaries by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and researchers to explore such topics as informed consent, conflict of interest, confidentiality, and research on illegal behavior. All human subjects research takes place within complex social, cultural, and political contexts, the contributors argue. Increased consideration of the relationships between researchers and their subjects, funders, and institutions within these contexts will facilitate research that is sensitive and responsible as well as scientifically fruitful.
Beyond Regulations features a keynote essay by Ruth Macklin. Other contributors are Marcela Aracena Alvarez, Jorge Balán, B. Susan Bauer, Alan F. Benjamin, Lynn Blanchard, Allan M. Brandt, J. Pat Browder, Barbara Entwisle, Sue E. Estroff, Renée C. Fox, Lara Freidenfelds, Gail E. Henderson, Nancy M. P. King, Loretta M. Kopelman, Ernest N. Kraybill, Barry M. Popkin, Silvina Ramos, Desmond K. Runyan, Jane Stein, Ronald P. Strauss, Keith A. Wailoo, and Cynthia Waszak.
Review
Clearly illustrates the importance of a relationship-based perspective to research ethics as a necessary complement to the principalist paradigm.
Journal of Medical Ethics
Review
This superb collection of essays, carefully structured around six cases, analyzes the attendant policy issues with great insight.
Alexander M. Capron, School of Law, University of Southern California
Synopsis
These essays provide timely reexamination of the ethical issues in research with human subjects as conducted in medicine, social science, and the humanities. This is the first volume in a new series, Studies in Social Medicine.
About the Author
Nancy King is associate professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Gail Henderson is associate professor of social medicine and adjunct professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Jane Stein teaches research and evaluation methods in maternal and child health and international health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Table of Contents
ContentsForeword by Allan M. Brandt and Larry R. Churchill
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Relationships in Research: A New Paradigm
Nancy M. P. King, Gail E. Henderson, and Jane Stein
Keynote Essay
Introduction
Is Ethics Universal?: Gender, Science, and Culture in Reproductive Health Research
Ruth Macklin
Case 1. Contracts and Covenants
Introduction
Contract and Covenant in Cura