Ethical Considerations for Research Involving PrisonersIn the past 30 years, the population of prisoners in the United States has expanded almost 5-fold, correctional facilities are increasingly overcrowded, and more of the country's disadvantaged populations—racial minorities, women, people with mental illness, and people with communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis—are under correctional supervision. Because prisoners face restrictions on liberty and autonomy, have limited privacy, and often receive inadequate health care, they require specific protections when involved in research, particularly in today's correctional settings. Given these issues, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Human Research Protections commissioned the Institute of Medicine to review the ethical considerations regarding research involving prisoners. The resulting analysis contained in this book, Ethical Considerations for Research Involving Prisoners, emphasizes five broad actions to provide prisoners involved in research with critically important protections: • expand the definition of "prisoner"; • ensure universally and consistently applied standards of protection; • shift from a category-based to a risk-benefit approach to research review; • update the ethical framework to include collaborative responsibility; and • enhance systematic oversight of research involving prisoners. |
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... Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health B. Jaye Anno, Consultants in Correctional Care, Santa Fe, New Mexico Kenneth Appelbaum, Correctional Mental Health Program, University of Massachusetts ...
... Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine. Nicholas Freudenberg, Department of Urban Public Health, Hunter College, City University of New York George Gasparis, Institutional Review Board—Human Research Protection Program, Columbia ...
... health benefits to prisoners. At the same time, research could impose unacceptable risks on prisoners, complicated ... Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research remain appropriate today. The Commission's path-breaking report on the ...
... human subject research unless it is funded by a few federal agencies, or the ... health and well-being) is a principal measure of a decent and civilized ... Human Research Protections for commissioning this project, the Institute of ...
... Medical Facility comprehensive quality improvement clinical research associate clinical research center California Youth Authority Department of Health and Human Services Department of Corrections Department of Justice Department of Health ...
Contents
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1 Introduction | 21 |
Changing Demographics Health Issues and the Current Research Environment | 29 |
3 Federal Regulatory Landscape | 73 |
4 Defining Prisoners and Correctional Settings | 101 |
5 The Ethical Framework for Research Involving Prisoners | 113 |
6 Systems of Oversight Safeguards and Protections | 137 |
Appendixes | 175 |
B The National Commissions Deliberations and Findings | 191 |
C Report of the SACHRP Subcommittee and Human Subjects Protections | 199 |
Public Welfare Part 46 Protection of Human Subjects | 205 |
E Committee Expert Advisor Liaison Panel and Staff Biographies | 239 |
Index | 253 |