Medical Research with Children: Ethics, Law and Practice

Abstract

This book is the report of a working party of the Institute of Medical Ethics, whose three-year remit was to consider the moral questions related to clinical research involving child, reviewing the moral basis and identifying acceptable moral criteria, in an attempt to draw up guidelines for researchers and ethics committees.The book is written in a concise fashion which successfully avoids endless woven moral/legal arguments which could have shrouded the important points of concern.I was also relieved that overt condemnatory statements were avoided and that the