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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... Research, was to explore whether the conclusions reached in 1976 by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research remain appropriate today. The Commission's path-breaking report on ...
... Research, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine. 3 FEDERAL REGULATORY LANDSCAPE 73 Adoption of DHHS Human Subjects Protection Regulations, 74 The Common Rule, 76 Subpart C: Prisoners as Research Subjects, 79 Report of ...
... Human Subjects Protections D Code of Federal Regulations Title 45: Public Welfare, Part 46: Protection of Human Subjects E Committee, Expert Advisor, Liaison Panel, and Staff Biographies INDEX 175 191 199 205 239 253 AE AIDS BJS BOP ...
... Research, Board on Health Sciences ... Research Participant Protection Program institutional review board Institute of Medicine Justice Policy Institute local research review board The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects ...
... human research subjects, also known as the Common Rule. The Common Rule provides requirements and guidance on issues such as review by an institutional review board (IRB), informed consent by subjects, analysis of risks and benefits ...
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 |