The ethics of conducting research with older psychiatric patients
作者:
L. Jaime Fitten,
期刊:
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
(WILEY Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 8,
issue 1
页码: 33-39
ISSN:0885-6230
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1002/gps.930080107
出版商: John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.
关键词: Geriatric psychiatry;research;ethics
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThe ethical context in which geropsychiatric research is carried out today in the United States has its origins in events of the 1960s and 1970s. Three main trends can be identified. The first is sociopolitical and involves the challenge to tradition and authority manifested in that period with its consequent moral pluralism and focus on new forms of individualism. Ethical thinkers redirected their attention to more normative questions and moral problems in medicine came under close scruitiny. Regulatory changes affecting research followed. The second trend greatly influenced the type of research that would predominate in psychiatry after the mid‐1970s. This trend involved the redirection of psychiatric thinking towards renewed interest in psychopathology, nosology and quantitation which was dormant during the preceding psychodynamically oriented decades. The final trend was the aging of the American population. Whereas before the 1960s there was little interest in aging the age‐related neuropsychiatric conditions, subsequent decades ushered in much interest and support for human aging research. New moral problems have naturally arisen. Most of them have involved vulnerable subpopulations of elderly. Nontheless, while small areas of disagreement remain and regulation is incomplete, research in geriatric psychiatry now proceeds within a well‐structured context of ethical guidelines and government regula
点击下载:
PDF
(659KB)
返 回