Children As Research Subjects Science, Ethics, and La [Hardcover]

Is using children as research subjects ever justified? Are there limits to such use? Does the fact that children are medically and psychosocially different from adults have implications for research? What can we learn from the history of the use and abuse of children as research subjects? Do parents have the authority to volunteer their children for research projects? How should children participate in the decision to be involved in research? How should research risks be assessed and balanced?
These perplexing questions and others are addressed by a distinguished group of experts in the field of biomedical and behavioral research with children. This book adopts an integrated multidisciplinary approach which uses science, ethics, and law as guides for exploring these most difficult issues. The tension between acquiring important new knowledge and fulfilling the obligation to protect children from exploitation and harm is a recurring theme.
As the first book to be devoted solely to the science, ethics, and law of research with children, it is an indispensable resource to physicians, psychologists, educators, lawyers, ethicists, Institutional Review Board members, child advocates and others involved in performing or reviewing research with children.

I. History
1. Historical Overview: Pediatric Experimentation, S. Lederer, M. Grodin
II. Science
2. Scientific Issues in Biomedical Research with Children, R. Kauffman
3. Scientific Issues in Psychosocial and Educational Research with Children, G. Koocher
III. Ethics
4. Ethics of Exposing Children to Risks in Research, D. Brock
IV. Law
5. The Law of Human Experimentation with Children, L. Glantz
V. Practical Problems
6. Children's Involvement in Research Participation Decisions: Psychological Considerations, L. Weithorn, D. Scherer
7. Assessment of Risk to Children, E. Wender
8. Vulnerable Chlc"