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Author Kimmelman, Jonathan.

Title Gene transfer and the ethics of first-in-human research : lost in translation / Jonathan Kimmelman.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Internet  WORLD WIDE WEB E-BOOK R2    Downloadable
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 205 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Human gene transfer is widely regarded as one of the most promising technologies for the treatment of a variety of disorders, but it presents practitioners with a variety of difficult ethical questions. Gene Transfer and the Ethics of First-in-Human Research examines the ethical and policy dimensions of testing interventions in human beings for the first time. The book discusses the difficult ethical challenges that arise from attempting to translate laboratory discoveries into clinical applications. These range from which available techniques to use, when to initiate human testing, questions of consent, expectation in public arenas, how to define acceptable risk, and the inclusion of vulnerable or disadvantaged subjects in early phase trials. This book is relevant to ethicists, legal practitioners, policy makers, geneticists and clinicians involved in clinical trials of new medical interventions"--Provided by publisher.
Contents Introduction: gene transfer lost in translation -- What is gene transfer? -- Safety, values, and legitimacy: the protean nature of risk in translational trials -- Taming uncertainty: risk and gene-transfer clinical research -- Succor or suckers? Benefit, risk, and the therapeutic misconception -- Looking backward: a model value for translational trials -- The chasm: the ethics of initiating first-in-human clinical trials -- Tropic of cancers: gene transfer in resource-poor settings -- Great expectations and hard times: expectation management in gene transfer -- Something in the sight adjusts itself: conclusions.
Note Description based on print version record.
GMD: electronic resource.
Subject Gene therapy -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Clinical trials -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Gene Transfer Techniques -- ethics.
Human Experimentation -- ethics.
Public Policy.
Other Form: Print version: Kimmelman, Jonathan. Gene transfer and the ethics of first-in-human research. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521690843 (DLC) 2009029830 (OCoLC)428770843
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