Medical Research In Prisons

Should Prisoners Be Used in Medical Experiments?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/should-prisoners-be-used-in-medical-experiments/

The year was 1946, and under the guise of public health hundreds of Guatemalan prison inmates were deliberately infected with syphilis. Male prisoners were sometimes infected via direct...

Report: Medical Experiments Conducted on U.S.

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There were some very noted researchers who were involved in studies that involved infecting mental patients or prisoners, including Jonas Salk, who’s famous for …

Prisoner Research FAQs | HHS.gov

https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/guidance/faq/prisoner-research/index.html

In this category, if the IRB-approved proposal is a study in which some prisoners will be assigned to a control group and these prisoners may not benefit from their participation in …

Correctional Healthcare | National Institute …

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Correctional Healthcare. With the rates of incarceration skyrocketing, the need for effective and more efficient correctional healthcare services has skyrocketed. Many …

Experimentation on prisoners - Wikipedia

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Using Prisoners as Research Subjects Raises Ethical …

https://www.reliasmedia.com/articles/140733-using-prisoners-as-research-subjects-raises-ethical-concerns

Human research in prison populations traditionally has raised ethical concerns that the incarcerated may be pressured to participate in a clinical trial. Thus, …

Challenges of Conducting Research in Prisons

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Simply getting access to a prison can be difficult for researchers. Furthermore, incarcerated persons are regarded as a vulnerable population for …

The Murky Past of Medical Research in …

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The Belmont Report, a 1978 document dealing with human subjects research , sums up the issues nicely by stating “on the one hand, it would seem that the principle of respect …

MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION ON PRISONERS

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/medical-experimentation-prisoners

Abstract THE ARGUMENT IS THAT, BECAUSE NO HUMAN BEING MAY BE USED IN A MEDICAL EXPERIMENT WITHOUT HIS OR HER INFORMED, FREELY GIVEN …

Guidance on Approving Research Involving Prisoners …

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For research involving prisoners, the definition of minimal risk requires reference to physical or psychological harm, as opposed to harm or discomfort, to risks normally …