Limits on risks for healthy volunteers in biomedical research

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 137-149

  Resnik, David B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Healthy volunteers; Human participant research; Paternalism; Regulations; Risk

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; ETHICS; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGAL ASPECT; PATERNALISM; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RESEARCH SUBJECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

AUTOEXPERIMENTATION; COMPREHENSION; ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; NONTHERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; PATERNALISM; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863627430     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11017-011-9201-1     Document Type: Article

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