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Medicolegal News, Volume 7 - Issue 2 - Summer 1979

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Correspondence

  • To the Editor

  • Helen T. Epstein
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    01 January 2021, p. 2
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  • To the Editor

  • Emanuel Hayt
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    01 January 2021, p. 2
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Editorial

  • Protecting Children and Society

  • Leonard H. Glantz
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    01 January 2021, pp. 4-5
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  • Experimentation with Children: The “Pawns” of Medical Technology

  • Edward T. Porcaro
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    01 January 2021, pp. 6-16

  • Without the use of human subjects in pediatric research, medical science would not have made many of its advances in the diagnosis and treatment of children's diseases. However, scientifically valid experimental trials require healthy subjects as controls and the use of healthy children raises many complex moral and legal questions.

    The need to experiment on normal, healthy children has blocked full recognition of their legal rights. Currently, as in the past, parents are allowed to volunteer their children as research subjects by means of “proxy consent.” This doctrine is, however, the only legal justification offered for submitting children to the often potentially damaging procedures they may be subject to as unknowing and perhaps unwilling subjects. While such third party consent appears to satisfy everyone's conscience, its use in non-therapeutic experimentation is inconsistent with established legal principles.

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News

  • News from the Society

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  • Medicolegal Meeting Calendar

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