Book contents
- Clinical Ethics in Anesthesiology
- Clinical Ethics in Anesthesiology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Consent and refusal
- 2 End-of-life issues
- 3 Pain management
- 4 Research and publication
- 27 Ethics in anesthesiology research using human subjects
- 28 Animal subjects research Part I: Do animals have rights?
- 29 Animal subjects research Part II: Ethics of animal experimentation
- 30 Ethical function of human subjects review boards: a US perspective
- 31 Research with vulnerable persons such as children and prisoners
- 32 The ethics of research on pain and other symptoms for which effective treatments already exist
- 33 Quality improvement initiatives: when is quality improvement actually a form of human subjects research?
- 34 Conflicts of interest in research funding
- 35 Publication ethics: obligations of authors, peer-reviewers, and editors
- 5 Practice issues
- 6 Anesthesiologists, the state, and society
- Index
31 - Research with vulnerable persons such as children and prisoners
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
Book contents
- Clinical Ethics in Anesthesiology
- Clinical Ethics in Anesthesiology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Consent and refusal
- 2 End-of-life issues
- 3 Pain management
- 4 Research and publication
- 27 Ethics in anesthesiology research using human subjects
- 28 Animal subjects research Part I: Do animals have rights?
- 29 Animal subjects research Part II: Ethics of animal experimentation
- 30 Ethical function of human subjects review boards: a US perspective
- 31 Research with vulnerable persons such as children and prisoners
- 32 The ethics of research on pain and other symptoms for which effective treatments already exist
- 33 Quality improvement initiatives: when is quality improvement actually a form of human subjects research?
- 34 Conflicts of interest in research funding
- 35 Publication ethics: obligations of authors, peer-reviewers, and editors
- 5 Practice issues
- 6 Anesthesiologists, the state, and society
- Index
Summary
This chapter focuses on two specific populations of individuals often vulnerable in the conduct of research: children and prisoners. With children, prisoners, and other vulnerable populations, the challenge is to find the right balance between protection from abuse and the need to grant vulnerable populations access to participation in research. Necessary protections have two components: fair subject selection, and the specific care required to minimize wrongs to vulnerable persons once they are enrolled in research. As a group, prisoners are vulnerable due to their particular situation: being detained and therefore being deprived of the freedom to move freely. Several prison-related factors are relevant for ethical considerations about research involving prisoners. Studies designed to address health problems specific to a vulnerable population are needed to improve care for this very population, and often cannot be conducted on others.
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- Clinical Ethics in AnesthesiologyA Case-Based Textbook, pp. 185 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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