Abstract
Recruitment of healthy children for drug research has emerged due in part to several new American laws and policies that have led to a surge in pharmaceutical research involving children-subjects. In this paper, I review the ethical and scientific issues and the arguments in favor and against this new practice.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 149-159 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2003 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Children
- Clinical trials
- Drugs
- Ethics
- Healthy subjects
- Healthy volunteers
- Non-therapeutic research
- Pharmaceutical preparations
- Research
- Research subjects
- Volunteer