Beyond Consent

Reviews / Votes

"This collection of essays examines the concept of justice and its application to research with human subjects, as seen through the lenses of various research populations. It is intended for an audience of students and scholars of bioethics, medicine, public health, and public policy, as well as institutional review board members, research administrators, and public policy makers involved in regulating the process of human subjects research." --Ethics, Law,
and Aging Review
"Beyond Consent provides an excellent historical overview of specific cases that failed to protect human subjects....This well-written, in-depth analysis of issues of justice in human research should be a valuable resource to scientists and physicians responsible for the design and conduct of human-subjects-research studies, bioethicists, institutional review board members, public health officials, regulators, and policymakers." --FORUM for Applied
Research and Public Policy
"The major strength of this book is its focus on these underlying factors and not the events themselves...The contributors to this volume do an exceptional job of helping the reader better comprehend the complexity and dynamic nature of using human beings for research in a world that tends not to provide equity elsewhere...But for the reader who is prepared to delve deeper and look beyond the sensational, this book will inform, stimulate and motivate."
--Medical Humanities Review
"The penultimate chapter of this book merits special mention, since it offers insights into theoretical rationales for considering demands for justice in medical research. This chapter discusses the implications of the shift in the focus of justice from individual research subjects to the groups they represent.... Beyond Consent: Seeking justice in research stimulates the reader...--New England Journal of Medicine
"With attention in particular to the vulnerable sick, women, children, people of color, and prisoners, contributors to this edited collection explore how the rules governing participation in research imperfectly accommodate concerns about access to healthcare. The editors are very well-respected in the field of ethics and clinical research; the contributors are uniformly well selected. This volume is an original contribution to the discussion of justice in
research. I believe it will compel rethinking of the field. Among collections about justice in healthcare, this book stands out for originality and for the forcefulness of the central thesis, as well as
for the care with which that thesis is explored." -- Doody's
"Beyond Consent opens the door to profound questions about the ethics of biomedical research, development, and access in the face of the globalization of the life sciences industries. It poses the kinds of challenges to justic that will define bioethics in this century."-- Hastings Center Report
"...identifies and summarizes the evolution of policies and emerging issues in research ethics...useful resource...could be used as a core text for the human subjects portion of a research ethics class...discusses a wide range of policies."--Journal of Health Politics, Policies, and Law Vol. 25, No. 5, October 2000
"This book carefully examines each of these aspects of justice in research. The penultimate chapter of this book merits special mention, since it offers insights into theoretical rationales for reconsidering demands for justice in medical research."New England Journal of MedicineVolume 341, Number 22
"The contributors to this volume do an exceptional job of helping the reader better comprehend the complexity and dynamic nature of using human beings for research in a world that tends not to provide equity elsewhere...this book will inform, stimulate, and motivate."-- Medical Humanities Review, Volume 13, Number 2
"...well organized, makes a clear, poignant argument, and advances the ethical discourse on research on human subjects."--Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics