Informed Consent Part 2

In this step, Razia Meer-Baloch, explains the importance of the informed consent process, and illustrates this using trials from recent history that were highly unethical.

“…. The most unethical medical experiments ever performed on children in the United States” Maurice Hilleman, 1972.

Discussion Points

Genuine consent is not just a matter of overwhelming a potential participant with lots of information and then asking them to sign a consent form. What are the key elements of consent?
How much information does someone require to be ‘informed’ of a clinical trial?

References

Offit, Paul A. (2007). Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases. Smithsonian Books/Collins. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-06-122795-0.

Veatch RM. Henry Beecher’s Contributions to the Ethics of Clinical Research. Perspect Biol Med. 2016;59(1):3-17. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2016.0018. PMID: 27499481.

Krugman S. The Willowbrook hepatitis studies revisited: ethical aspects. Rev Infect Dis. 1986 Jan-Feb;8(1):157-62. doi: 10.1093/clinids/8.1.157. PMID: 3952423.

[Spatz. JAMA. 2016;315(19):2063–2064; Main. BMC Medical Ethics 2017;18:29]

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