Balancing justice and autonomy in clinical research with healthy volunteers

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 219-227

  Kass, N E ^a   Myers, R ^a,c   Fuchs, E J ^b   Carson, K A ^a   Flexner, C ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; ETHICS; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; JUSTICE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PRISONERS; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; RESEARCHER-SUBJECT RELATIONS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 34447547668     PISSN: 00099236     EISSN: 15326535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.clpt.6100192     Document Type: Article

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