Daily Archives: May 19th, 2011
In clinical trials, questions around community rights
At the final session today of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, one issue that rose repeatedly was the importance of involving the community in discussions around ethical issues in clinical trials. “A lot of people talked about individual rights and community rights, but how do we take that into consideration and [...]
Could another Guatemala case happen?
The question was simple, the answers not. At the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues today, Commission Chair Dr. Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, asked a panel of international experts on bioethics whether the so-called Guatemala incident could happen again. In Guatemala, from 1946 to 1948, a U.S.-funded research experiment [...]
At meeting, one very interested onlooker
She sat up front at the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues meeting in New York City, listening closely and feeling extremely curious as to how the Commission would proceed in its in-depth look at human subjects research in clinical trials. But Susan M. Reverby, a professor of women’s studies at Wellesley College [...]
