Vulnerability in Research Subjects

Kipnis, Kenneth

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-2552-5_16

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“…Levine et al (2004) accept Kipnis's (2001) definition of vulnerability as articulated in his NBAC-commissioned paper, "Vulnerability in research subjects: A bioethical taxonomy," as an adequate and accurate account of how vulnerability is understood and applied by researchers and institutional review boards (IRBs). In his paper, Kipnis argues that vulnerability (in human subjects research) should be understood as that which "call[s] into question the efficacy of consent in effecting permissibility" (Kipnis 2001).…”

Section: Contextualizing the Vulnerability Standardmentioning

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Contextualizing the Vulnerability Standard

Shivas

2004

The American Journal of Bioethics

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Contextualizing the Vulnerability Standard

Shivas

2004

The American Journal of Bioethics

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“…First, it has been argued that the concept of vulnerability remains vague 3 and even that the ''definition of vulnerability for the purposes of healthcare and research with human participants is . .…”

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Vulnerability: Too Vague and Too Broad?

Schroeder

Gefenas²

2009

Camb Q Healthc Ethics

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Imagine you are walking down a city street. It is windy and raining. Amidst the bustle you see a young woman. She sits under a railway bridge, hardly protected from the rain and holds a woolen hat containing a small number of coins. You can see that she trembles from the cold. Or imagine seeing an old woman walking in the street at dusk, clutching her bag with one hand and a walking stick with the other. A group of male youths walk behind her without overtaking, drunk and in the mood for mischief. It doesn't need an academic to say what vulnerability is. We can all see it, much more often than we care to.

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“…fetuses and children is partly understood as a diminished capacity to consent to participate in research (Kipnis 2001;Zion, Gillam and Loff 2000: 616). Prisoners are seen as potentially coerced through the structural conditions of imprisonment.…”

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