Medical Research with Children: Ethics, Law, and Practice

by Walter Nicholson

Should children be excluded from medical research? Some child rights activists argue that no child should ever be used for research, while many physicians claim that health care for children will not improve without such experimentation. This informative study examines the legal and ethical basis for carrying out research on children, discussing such factors as the distinction between therapeutic and nontherapeutic research, the nature of risk in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192615289
• ISBN13: 9780192615282
• Release Date: July 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"