I need a placebo like i need a hole in the head

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 69-72

  Weijer, Charles ^a,b,c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYCLOSPORIN; PLACEBO;

CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH ETHICS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHICS; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; NEUROSURGERY; NOTE; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ETHICS; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; NONTHERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT SELECTION; PLACEBO EFFECT; PLACEBOS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; THERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 0036519016     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2002.tb00721.x     Document Type: Review

References (13)

1. P.A. Clark, "Placebo Surgery for Parkinson's Disease: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Risks?," Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 30, no. 1 (2002): 58-68.
2. See H.K. Beecher, "Surgery as Placebo," JAMA, 176 (1961): 1102-07.
3. E.J. Emanuel and F.G. Miller, "The Ethics of Placebo-Controlled Trials - A Middle Ground," N. Engl. J. Med., 345 (2001): 915-19, at 917 (bullets added).
4. B. Freedman, C. Weijer, and K.C. Glass, "Placebo Orthodoxy in Clinical Research I: Empirical and Methodological Myths," Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 24 (1996): 243-51.
5. See id.
6. C. Weijer, "The Ethical Analysis of Risk," Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 28, no. 4 (2000): 344-61.
7. U.S. National Bioethics Advisory Commission, "Report and Recommendations of the National Advisory Bioethics Commission," Ethical and Policy Issues in Research Involving Human Participants, vol. 1 (Bethesda: NBAC, 2001).
8. See Weijer, supra note 6.
9. See id.
10. See id.
11. See Clark, supra note 1.
12. C. Weijer, "Research Involving the Vulnerable Sick," Accountability in Research, 7 (1999): 21-36.
13. See R.J. Levine, Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Research, 2d ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988): at 73.