"The Compassionate Physician": Frequency and Social Determinants of Physician-Investigator Concern for Human Subjects

Lally, John J.; Barber, Bernard

doi:10.1093/sf/53.2.289

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“…The necessity for bene®cence and avoidance of male®cence are crucial in the recruitment of patients into studies when exploitation could occur (Shimm and Speece 1991). However the assumption that the clinician/ investigator is by de®nition bene®cent has been previously questioned by Lally and Barber (1974). More clarity in the consent process, such as documenting in the consent form what the clinician stands to personally gain from the research, could address this issue.…”

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The conflicting roles of clinicians versus investigators in HIV randomised clinical trials

Hales

Beveridge²,

Smith³

2001

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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The conflicting roles of clinicians versus investigators in HIV randomised clinical trials

Hales

Beveridge²,

Smith³

2001

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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“…In fact, it was only halfway through the 1990s that work was effectively undertaken to try to capture in situ the ethical dimensions of medical activity. Methodologically, these works broke with studies of 'ethical opinions' using questionnaires or interviews without observation of activity (Crane, 1975;Hoffmaster et al, 1991;Jecker and Berg, 1992;Lally and Barber, 1974;Wershow et al, 1981). They considered that such publications posed as many problems as many opinion polls (Gaxie, 1990).…”

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The ethnography of ‘particularly sensitive’ activities: How ‘social expectations of ethnography’ may reduce sociological and anthropological scope

Paillet

2012

Ethnography

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When ethnographers explore ‘particularly sensitive’ social activities, raising complex political, legal and ethical stakes, they sometimes work in contexts in which certain ethnographic descriptions are ‘particularly expected’. Ethnographers may then be given (pleasant) recognition for their work producing descriptions of actual social activities. But is there not a trap here? This trap is to reduce the scope of their research to the production of such descriptions even if at the beginning of their work they defined these descriptions as simple ‘preliminary questions’ and wanted to invest their principal work in ‘core questions’ – for instance about the relationships between individuals and activities and the social roots of these relationships. This article revisits research concerning life-or-death decisions and ‘ethics in action’ in neonatal intensive care, in order to pinpoint how social expectations of descriptions may reduce the very definition of the sociological and anthropological perspective.

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Physician response to informed consent regulations for randomized clinical trials

Taylor

Shapiro

Soskolne

et al. 1987

Cancer

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To improve our understanding of physician reluctance to participate in randomized clinical trials, we examined physician responses to the regulation of obtaining written informed consent. Between June 1984 and February 1985 a purposive sample of 170 breast cancer specialists from eight countries completed a self-administered questionnaire and follow-up interview. The sample included 90 medical oncologists, 65 surgeons, and 29 radiotherapists. Responses to individual questions are presented in three global categories: (1) physician role--physicians believed that their view of their professional "self" was not compatible with informed consent regulations; (2) physician autonomy--physicians perceived a loss of individual decision-making power and an increase in professional accountability; and (3) physician-patient relationship--physicians stated that informed consent regulations influenced what they told trial patients and affected the ensuing doctor-patient relationship. Respondents developed complex methods to accommodate the incongruities they perceived between their view of their professional self and the need to obtain informed consent.

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"The Compassionate Physician": Frequency and Social Determinants of Physician-Investigator Concern for Human Subjects

Cited by 8 publications

References 1 publication

The conflicting roles of clinicians versus investigators in HIV randomised clinical trials

The conflicting roles of clinicians versus investigators in HIV randomised clinical trials

The ethnography of ‘particularly sensitive’ activities: How ‘social expectations of ethnography’ may reduce sociological and anthropological scope

Physician response to informed consent regulations for randomized clinical trials

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