Title Carte blanche : the erosion of medical consent / Harriet A. Washington.

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New York, NY : Columbia Global Reports, [2021]

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Description	189 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	"Carte Blanche is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say "no" to risky medical research is eroding at a time when we are racing to produce a vaccine and treatments for Covid-19. This medical right that we have long taken for granted was first sacrificed on the altar of military expediency in 1990 when the Department of Defense asked for and received from the FDA a waiver that permitted it to force an experimental anthrax vaccine on the ranks of ground troops headed for the Persian Gulf. Since then, the military has pressed ahead to impose nonconsensual testing of the blood substitute PolyHeme in civilian urbanities, quietly enrolling more than 20,000 non-consenting subjects since 2005. Most Americans think that their right to give or withhold consent is protected by law, but the passing in 1996 of modifications to the Code of Federal Regulations, such as statute CFR 21 50.24, now permit investigators to conduct research with trauma victims without their consent or event their knowledge. More than a dozen studies since have used the 1996 loophole to recruit large numbers of subjects without their knowledge. The erosion of consent is the result of a U.S. medical-research system that has proven again and again that it cannot be trusted"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History.
	Informed consent (Medical law) -- United States.
	African Americans -- Medical care -- History.
	Informed Consent -- ethics. (DNLM)D007258Q000941
	Human Experimentation -- ethics. (DNLM)D006805Q000941
	Researcher-Subject Relations -- ethics. (DNLM)D035844Q000941
	United States. (DNLM)D014481
	MEDICAL / General.
	African Americans -- Medical care. (OCoLC)fst00799638
	Human experimentation in medicine. (OCoLC)fst00963042
	Informed consent (Medical law) (OCoLC)fst00973191
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Online version: Washington, Harriet A., Carte blanche New York, NY : Columbia Global Reports, [2021] 9781734420739 (DLC) 2020040296
ISBN	9781734420722 (paperback)
	1734420723 (paperback)
	9781734420739 (ebook)

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