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The Censor`s Hand – The Misregulation of Human–Subject Research: Basic Bioethics

Autor Carl E. Schneider
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 mai 2015
An argument that the system of boards that license human-subject research is so fundamentally misconceived that it inevitably does more harm than good.

Medical and social progress depend on research with human subjects. When that research is done in institutions getting federal money, it is regulated (often minutely) by federally required and supervised bureaucracies called “institutional review boards” (IRBs). Do—can—these IRBs do more harm than good? In The Censor's Hand, Schneider addresses this crucial but long-unasked question.

Schneider answers the question by consulting a critical but ignored experience—the law's learning about regulation—and by amassing empirical evidence that is scattered around many literatures. He concludes that IRBs were fundamentally misconceived. Their usefulness to human subjects is doubtful, but they clearly delay, distort, and deter research that can save people's lives, soothe their suffering, and enhance their welfare. IRBs demonstrably make decisions poorly. They cannot be expected to make decisions well, for they lack the expertise, ethical principles, legal rules, effective procedures, and accountability essential to good regulation. And IRBs are censors in the place censorship is most damaging—universities.

In sum, Schneider argues that IRBs are bad regulation that inescapably do more harm than good. They were an irreparable mistake that should be abandoned so that research can be conducted properly and regulated sensibly.

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ISBN-13: 9780262028912
ISBN-10: 0262028913
Pagini: 342
Dimensiuni: 158 x 231 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: MIT Press Ltd
Seria Basic Bioethics


Notă biografică

Carl E. Schneider is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Law and Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. He has written More Than You Wanted to Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure, The Practice of Autonomy: Patients, Doctors, and Medical Decisions, and numerous other books and articles.

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An argument that the system of boards that license human-subject research is so fundamentally misconceived that it inevitably does more harm than good.