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The Ethical Conduct of Clinical Research Involving Children by Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on Clinical Research Involving Children, Richard E. Behrman, Marilyn J. Field, Richard E. Behrman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>In recent decades, advances in biomedical research have helped save or lengthen the lives of children around the world. With improved therapies, child and adolescent mortality rates have decreased significantly in the last half century. Despite these advances, pediatricians and others argue that children have not shared equally with adults in biomedical advances. Even though we want children to benefit from the dramatic and accelerating rate of progress in medical care that has been fueled by scientific research, we do not want to place children at risk of being harmed by participating in clinical studies.</p> <p><i>Ethical Conduct of Clinical Research Involving Children</i> considers the necessities and challenges of this type of research and reviews the ethical and legal standards for conducting it. It also considers problems with the interpretation and application of these standards and conduct, concluding that while children should not be excluded from potentially beneficial clinical studies, some research that is ethically permissible for adults is not acceptable for children, who usually do not have the legal capacity or maturity to make informed decisions about research p

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Author
Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on Clinical Research Involving Children, Richard E. Behrman, Marilyn J. Field, Richard E. Behrman
Publisher
Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press
Published
2004
Language
EN
ISBN
9780309091817
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Medical, Science, Philosophy

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