Protecting Human Research Subjects as Human Research Workers

• Published in: Human Subjects Research Regulation p. 327
• Main Author: Holly Fernandez Lynch
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: The MIT Press 25.07.2014
• Subjects: Administrative law; Behavioral sciences; Bioethics; Business; Business operations; Clinical research; Commerce; Commercial law; Commercial regulation; Committees; Economic disciplines; Economic regulation; Economics; Environmental ethics; Environmental philosophy; Environmental studies; Ethics & Bioethics; Ethics committees; Financial transactions; Government; Government regulation; Health sciences; Human geography; Human societies; Institutional review boards; Labor; Labor economics; Labor law; Labor regulations; Law; Medical conditions; Medical research; Medical sciences; Payments; Philosophy; Physical trauma; Political science; Public administration; Social groups; Social sciences; Sociology; Wage and hour regulation; Workplaces
• ISBN: 0262526212; 9780262526210
• DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9830.003.0034

The changes proposed to the Common Rule in the ANPRM were primarily intended to enhance protections for human subjects while reducing burden on researchers. However, due to a continued view of human subjects research as an exceptional endeavor that ought to be governed by exceptional rules (Sachs 2010 ; Miller and Wertheimer 2010; Wilson and Hunter 2010), the government and interested stakeholders have failed to take this once-in-two-decade opportunity to consider some enhanced protections that could be appropriately imported from a potentially unexpected but analogous setting—the workplace. In this chapter I flesh out the analogy between human subjects in