The Revised Common Rule and Mental Illness: Enduring Gaps in Protections

• Published in: American journal of law & medicine Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 413 - 444
• Main Author: Smilan, Lisa E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.11.2020; Cambridge University Press
• Subjects: Americans with Disabilities Act 1990-US; Antipsychotics; Bioethics; Biomedical research; Biomedical Research - ethics; Coercion; Decision Making; Ethics, Research; Human Experimentation - legislation & jurisprudence; Human Experimentation - standards; Humans; Intellectual disabilities; Mental Competency; Mental disorders; Mental Disorders - psychology; Mental health; Population; Psychiatric research; Psychiatrists; Psychosis; Suffering; United States; United States Dept. of Health and Human Services; Vulnerable Populations - psychology; United States; United States > US

In 2003, a young man with severe mental illness allegedly was coerced by his psychiatrist, against the wishes of his mother, to participate in “the CAFÉ study,” a clinical trial comparing atypical antipsychotics, including Seroquel, in first-episode psychosis; the study was conducted within the Univ...