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The Involuntary Research Subject

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2004

JERRY MENIKOFF
JERRY MENIKOFF
Affiliation:
Jerry Menikoff, M.D., J.D., is Associate Professor of Law, Ethics, and Medicine and Associate Director of the Institute for Law, Bioethics, and Public Policy at the University of Kansas, Kansas City
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Extract

Informed consent is the bedrock principle on which most of modern research ethics rest. That principle, like most others, has some exceptions, such as for emergency situations and for some studies involving very low risk. But what about situations that do not fall into either of these categories? Are there such research studies that are so important to society that we nonetheless are willing to involuntarily enroll subjects, without their informed consent?

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: ETHICAL LIMITS IN HUMAN SUBJECTS RESEARCH
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 338 - 345
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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