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THE SOCIAL INSTITUTION OF CLINICAL RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN SUBJECTS: A CONCEPTUAL AND ETHICAL ANALYSIS

Leontis, Vassiliki Leonardou
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1136903207

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2006, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies/Sociology.
This thesis assesses clinical research involving human subjects as a social institution of global reach. Scientific, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of clinical research are examined for their contributions to the construction of trials, and two philosophical interpretations of scientific methodology are consulted for their views about the penetration of scientific theories by social values: Hugh Lacey’s positive empiricist account of the role of cognitive values and social strategies in science, and Helen Longino’s contextualist feminist theory of scientific inquiry, objectivity, and social knowledge. The socio-cultural construction of the conceptual and ethical structure of clinical research is emphasized. Ethical analyses of clinical research focus on the use of divergent normative standards for clinical trials in the developed and developing world. The dominant bioethical model offered for transcultural ethical research, principlism, is described and critically assessed. The transnational ACTG 076 clinical trials are presented as a case study of global research and bioethical evaluation. Martha Nussbaum’s human capabilities model is proposed as an alternative, contexualist framework of clinical research ethics for its particular focus on the ethics and politics of distributive justice, which is a crucial issue in the contexts of health care and clinical research.
Kathleen Dixon (Advisor)
143 p.
American Studies
clinical research; human subjects; bioethics; ACTG 076 transnational trials; distributive justice; human capabilities model

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  • Leontis, V. L. (2006). THE SOCIAL INSTITUTION OF CLINICAL RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN SUBJECTS: A CONCEPTUAL AND ETHICAL ANALYSIS [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1136903207

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  • Leontis, Vassiliki. THE SOCIAL INSTITUTION OF CLINICAL RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN SUBJECTS: A CONCEPTUAL AND ETHICAL ANALYSIS. 2006. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1136903207.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Leontis, Vassiliki. "THE SOCIAL INSTITUTION OF CLINICAL RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN SUBJECTS: A CONCEPTUAL AND ETHICAL ANALYSIS." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1136903207

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