Vulnerability: Reflection on its ethical implications for the protection of participants in SAMHSA programs

Ethics and Behavior

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 293-304

  McGovern, Thomas F ^a,b  

^a Texas Tech Medical Center   (United States)

^b Texas Tech Health Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidentiality; Human subjects; Privacy; Research participants; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ALCOHOLISM; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BENEFICENCE; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONSUMER; FREEDOM; GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTITUTIONAL ETHICS; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; MENTAL PATIENT; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIVACY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RESEARCH; RESEARCH SUBJECT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL WELFARE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION;

ALCOHOLISM; ALTRUISM; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BENEFICENCE; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; ETHICS COMMITTEES; ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; ETHICS, INSTITUTIONAL; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; FREEDOM; GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; GUIDELINES; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONS; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIVACY; RESEARCH; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL WELFARE; STEREOTYPING; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 0032253858     PISSN: 10508422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327019eb0804_3     Document Type: Article

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