Ethics and Governance of Biomedical Research Theory and Practice [Paperback]

In this book,scholars with different disciplinary and national backgrounds argue forpossible answers and analyse case studies on current issues of governance inbiomedical research. These issues comprise among others the research-caredistinction, risk evaluation in early human trials, handling of incidentalfindings, nocebo effects, cluster randomized trials, publication bias, orconsent in biobank research. This book demonstrates how new technologies andresearch possibilities multiply or intensify already known governancechallenges, leaving room for ethical analysis and complex moral choices.Clinical researchers, research ethics committee members and research ethicistshave all to deal with such challenges on a daily basis. While generalreflection on core concepts of research ethics is seldom pointless, thoseconfronted with hard moral choices do need more practical and contextualizedreflection on the said issues. This book particularly provides suchcontextualized reflections and aims to inform all those who study, conduct,regulate, fund, or participate in biomedical research.Introducing new domains of research governance; Govind C. Persad, JD,BS, BA.- Should Research Ethics Encourage the Production of Cost-Effect Interventions?; Rebecca Johnson, MA.-  From altruists to Workers: WhatClaims Should Healthy Participants in Phase I Trials Have Against TrialEmployers?; Luana Colloca, PhD.- Nocebo effect: The dilemma of disclosingadverse events; Jan-Ole Reichardt, MA.- Encouraging conscientiousness in risk associated areas of medicalresearch Challenges in common domains of research governance; Sara Anna SuzanDekking, MAE et al.- Discriminating between Research and Care in PaediatricOncology. Ethical Appraisal of the ALL- 10 and 11 protocols of the DutchChildhood Oncology Group (DCOG); Imme Petersen, PhD et al.- What Does theChilds Assent to Research Participation Mean to Parents? Empirical Findings inPaediatric Oncology in Germany; Marcin Walig?ra, PhD.- Assent in plÔ