The role of community consultation in the ethical conduct of research without consent.
The role of community consultation in the ethical conduct of research without consent.
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社区协商在未经同意的研究道德行为中的作用。
DOI:
10.1080/15265160600685853
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2006
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Wilets,Ilene
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Richardson,LynneD;Rhodes,Rosamond;Ragin,DeborahFish;Wilets,Ilene
@ R,” focuses on a problematic aspect of these regulations, namely the requirements for community consultation and public disclosure (Holloway 2006). Her unfavorable appraisal of community consultation appears to be a vehicle for a more general indictment of the notion of “community” as currently used by institutionalized medicine and medical research. Although this criticism may be justified, Holloway’s arguments are not persuasive and her chosen exemplars seem ill-considered. There is nothing paradoxical about Satcher’s (2001) description of the diverse and complex nature of real communities, and it is disingenuous for anyone familiar with her writings to accuse Lillie-Blanton et al.(2001) of biased cultural notions. Specifically, however, we wish to take issue with Holloway’s assertion that, within the discipline of emergency research, community is being used as a “troubling displacement for individual autonomy”(Holloway 2006, 7). As Schmidt et al. point out in their excellent summary of the development and provisions of 21 CFR 50.24, the requirement for community consultation is one of the special protections provided whenever an exception from informed consent is granted for emergency research (Schmidt et al. 2006). Community consultation is neither an ethical nor legal substitute for individual informed consent but, when properly conducted, it can advance important ethical goals.Individuals who succumb to a medical emergency are often unable to give their informed consent for emergency treatment. Having been deprived of their autonomy by the life-threatening medical condition from which they are suffering, the principle of respect for persons demands that these individuals be protected. In the case of emergency treatment, patients are presumed to want life-saving measures and health care providers routinely act under the doctrine of presumed consent. The presumed preference of an individual who is unable to consent to emergency research is much less clear. By limiting the exception from informed