Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research - Couverture souple

Stark, Laura

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226770877 ISBN 13 : 9780226770871

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2012

Synopsis

Although the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what takes place when they convene. The story of how IRBs work today is a story about their past as well as their present, and Behind Closed Doors is the first book to meld firsthand observations of IRB meetings with the history of how rules for the treatment of human subjects were formalized in the United States in the decades after World War II.

Drawing on extensive archival sources, Laura Stark reconstructs the daily lives of scientists, lawyers, administrators, and research subjects working—and “warring”—on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, where they first wrote the rules for the treatment of human subjects. Stark argues that the model of group deliberation that gradually crystallized during this period reflected contemporary legal and medical conceptions of what it meant to be human, what political rights human subjects deserved, and which stakeholders were best suited to decide. She then explains how the historical contingencies that shaped rules for the treatment of human subjects in the postwar era guide decision making today—within hospitals, universities, health departments, and other institutions in the United States and across the globe. Meticulously researched and gracefully argued, Behind Closed Doors will be essential reading for sociologists and historians of science and medicine, as well as policy makers and IRB administrators.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Laura Stark is associate professor in the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society and affiliated professor of history at Vanderbilt University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226770877
• ISBN 13: 9780226770871
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 229
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• Personne responsable: non disponible