Protecting communities in health research from exploitation

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Guidelines for health research focus on protecting individual research subjects. Yet several commentators have argued that protecting individual subjects, while undoubtedly important, is not sufficient to ensure ethical research. It is also vital to protect the communities involved in health research. In particular, a number of studies have been criticized on the grounds that they exploited host communities. Although these criticisms have received a good deal of attention, there has been no systematic analysis of what constitutes community exploitation in health research, nor an assessment of what safeguards are needed to protect against it. This is a serious deficiency. The absence of an analysis of community exploitation makes it impossible to ensure that host communities are protected against exploitation. The absence of an analysis also raises the possibility that charges of exploitation may block important research, without any way of assessing whether the charges are warranted. The present paper attempts to address these concerns by providing an analysis of community exploitation and, based on this analysis, determining what safeguards are needed to protect communities in health research against exploitation.

United States, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Research and Testing Services, Medical Research, Epilepsy & Muscle Disease R&D, Health Research Programs, Medicine, Experimental, Exploitation

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Editorial

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An overview is presented on public health ethics. Topics include physician-patient relations, individual rights, the prevention paradox, health and environmental toxins, and the role of communication in public health.

Management dynamics, Public Health Care, Health Programs-Total Govt, Administration of Human Resource Programs, Health Programs, Editorial, Practice, Physician and patient, Physician-patient relations, Public health, Medical ethics, Patients' rights

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Chinese concepts of Euthanasia and health care

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China, Government domestic functions, Health Care Services, Medical & Health Services, Health care industry, Medical care, Political aspects, Medical care (Private), Health policy, Author abstract

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