Innovation in Medical Technology

Ethical Issues and Challenges
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8526-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 358 g

This thought-provoking study examines the ethical, legal, and social problems that arise with cutting-edge medical technology. Using as examples four powerful and largely unregulated technologies—off-label use of drugs, innovative surgery, assisted reproduction, and neuroimaging—Margaret L. Eaton and Donald Kennedy illustrate the difficult challenges faced by clinicians, researchers, and policy makers who seek to advance the frontiers of medicine safely and responsibly.

Supported by medical history and case studies and drawing on reports from dozens of experts, the authors address important practical, ethical, and policy issues. They consider topics such as the responsible introduction of new medical products and services, the importance of patient consent, the extent of the duty to mitigate harm, and the responsibility to facilitate access to new medical therapies.

This work's insights into the nature and consequences of medical innovation contribute to the national debate on how best to protect patients while fostering innovation and securing benefits.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eaton, Margaret L.

Kennedy, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Need to Ask Questions about Innovation
1. Distinguishing Innovative Medical Practice from Research
2. The Modern History of Human Research Ethics
3. Innovation in the Off-Label Use of Drugs
4. Innovative Surgery
5. Innovation in Assisted Reproduction
6. Innovation in Neuroimaging
7. Questions, Issues, and Recommendations Going Forward
Conclusion: Final Thoughts on the Landscape of Innovation
Appendix A: Directives for Human Experimentation: Nuremberg Code
Appendix B: World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki
Appendix C: Description of Department of Health and Human Services
Regulations for the Protection of Human Subjects
Appendix D: Participants in Lasker Forum on Ethical Challenges in Biomedical Research and Practice
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Eaton, Margaret L.
Margaret L. Eaton is a lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and was formerly a senior research scholar at the Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University School of Medicine.

Margaret L. Eaton is a lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and was formerly a senior research scholar at the Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University School of Medicine. Donald Kennedy is emeritus Bing Professor of Environmental Science and President Emeritus of Stanford University. A former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner, Dr. Kennedy co-chairs the National Academies of Science Project on Science, Technology, and Law and is the editor-in-chief of Science.