Legal and ethical considerations of research in children: implications for anaesthetists
作者:
N. A. PACE,
期刊:
Pediatric Anesthesia
(WILEY Available online 1992)
卷期:
Volume 2,
issue 1
页码: 17-21
ISSN:1155-5645
年代: 1992
DOI:10.1111/j.1460-9592.1992.tb00475.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: anaesthesia: paediatric;medico‐legal: law;ethics
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
SummaryUndertaking research in children creates many legal and ethical dilemmas and it is essential that paediatric anaesthetists fully understand the complex issues raised. Most commentators agree that therapeutic research is justified. The question of non‐therapeutic research, however, is much more controversial, with widespread disagreement about its ethical justification. The extreme arguments advocating no research at all or justifying it as a duty to society are not acceptable. The middle of the road attitude of balancing the risks to the child with the many advantages to society as a whole should prevail. If risks are significant, research should not be allowed. The law itself appears to offer no statutory guidelines which, therefore, should be implemente
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