Informed Consent Forms for Research with Human Subjects: Time to End the Charade

• Published in: American journal of law & medicine Vol. 50; no. 3-4; pp. 204 - 221
• Main Author: Glantz, Leonard H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Cambridge University Press 01.12.2024
• Subjects: Consent Forms - legislation & jurisprudence; Ethics Committees, Research; Ethics, Research; Heart; Human Experimentation - ethics; Human Experimentation - legislation & jurisprudence; Human subjects; Humans; Informed consent; Informed Consent - legislation & jurisprudence; Intervention; Litigation; Medical treatment; Patients; Physicians; Radiation therapy; Research Subjects - legislation & jurisprudence; United States; United States; human subject research; informed consent; consent forms; bioethics

In 1974, the Center for Law and Health Sciences at the Boston University School of Law provided legal background papers on informed consent to research to the newly created National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences. These papers were written by Ge...