HISC 116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Anesthesiologist, James Childress, Affidavit
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Senator estes kefauver was against pharmaceutical price fixing: thalidomide disaster boosted his campaign. Kefauver harris amendments to the food, drugs, and cosmetics act: tightened fda drug licensing policies, made informed consent a mandate. Major loophole: researchers have the discretion to keep participants uninformed if deemed feasible: more rigorous drug testing policies which led to a sharp increase in the scale of medical experimentation. The director of medicine agreed, but three of the doctors refused and later resigned. The resigned doctors filed a report, which led to a hospital board meeting where a la(cid:449)(cid:455)er (cid:894)willia(cid:373) h(cid:455)(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:895) sued the hospital for a(cid:272)(cid:272)ess to the stud(cid:455)"s records. Measures own values as higher than others. Henry beecher: anesthesiologist and activist for improved ethics and procedures in research, his paper (cid:862)ethics and the explosion of human experimentation(cid:863) at a clinical research symposium discussed twenty cases where participants did not give informed consent.
