(DOWNLOAD) "Clarifying Confusions About Coercion (Essays)" by The Hastings Center Report # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Clarifying Confusions About Coercion (Essays)
- Author : The Hastings Center Report
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 155 KB
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One of the most common criticisms of informed consent to research is that the subjects have been "coerced" into participating in clinical studies. Discussion of "coercion" is common in scholarly articles, in discussions within IRBs, in ethics consultations, at presentations given at bioethics and medical conferences, and in ethics committee meetings. But many of these uses are incorrect, and it's time we cleaned up our language. Such claims have appeared especially frequently in recent years in discussions of research conducted in developing countries. Noting that potential subjects may be poor, uneducated, naive about research, and lacking alternative, nonresearch-related forms of health care, commentators claim subjects have "no choice" but to participate and therefore equate lack of good choices with coercion. For example, in an article on trials of the efficacy of HIV preventions, Isabelle de Zoysa and colleagues cautioned investigators to "remind themselves that offering the trial participants access to extensive services that are not otherwise available to them may be coercive in itself." (1)