Law and Ethics in Biomedical Research : : Regulation, Conflict of Interest and Liability / / ed. by Trudo Lemmens, Duff Waring.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Brown, James Robert,; Ferris, Lorraine E.,; Gelsinger, Paul L.,; Glass, Kathleen Cranley,; Halwani, Sana,; Kahn, Jeffrey,; Krimsky, Sheldon,; Lemmens, Trudo,; Mastroianni, Anna,; Miller, Paul B.,; Naylor, C. David,; Thomson, Mary M.,; Waring, Duff R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Lemmens, Trudo,; Waring, Duff,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

When a young man named Jesse Gelsinger died in 1999 as a result of his participation in a gene transfer research study, regulatory agencies in the United States began to take a closer look at what was happening in medical research. The resulting temporary shutdown of some of the most prestigious academic research centres confirmed what various recent reports in the United States as well as Canada had claimed; that the current system of regulatory oversight was in need of improvement.Law and Ethics in Biomedical Research uses the Gelinger case as a touchstone, illustrating how three major aspects of that case - the flaws in the regulatory system, conflicts of interest, and legal liability - embody the major challenges in the current medical research environment. Editors Trudo Lemmens and Duff R. Waring, along with a host of top scholars in the field, demonstrate why existing models of research review and human subject protection are in need of improvement, and how more stringent regulatory and legal means can be used to strengthen the protection of research subjects and the integrity of research.The contributors also address conflicts of interest, paying particular attention to the growing commercialization of medical research, as well as the legal liability of scientific investigators, research institutions, and governmental agencies. Legal liability is a growing concern in medical research and this fascinating study is, in the international context, one of the first to explore the liability of various parties involved in the research enterprise.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Uninformed Consent: The Case of Jesse Gelsinger -- Part One: Regulation -- 2. Questions and Challenges in the Governance of Research Involving Humans: A Canadian Perspective -- 3. Swinging on the Pendulum: Shifting Views of Justice in Human Subjects Research -- Part Two: Conflict of Interest -- 4. The Ethical and Legal Foundations of Scientific 'Conflict of Interest' -- 5. Self-Censorship -- 6. Promoting Integrity in Industry- Sponsored Clinical Drug Trials: Conflict of Interest Issues for Canadian Health Sciences Centres -- 7. The Human Subjects Trade: Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Remedies to Deal with Recruitment Incentives and to Protect Scientific Integrity -- Part Three: Liability -- 8. Bringing Research into Therapy: Liability Anyone? -- 9. Legal Liability for Harm to Research Participants: The Case of Placebo-Controlled Trials -- 10. Her Majesty's Research Subjects: Liability of the Crown in Research Involving Humans -- Contributors -- Index