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Charles Weijer

Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation

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Minimal Risk Remains An Open Question, Ariella Binik, Charles Weijer, Mark Sheehan May 2011

Minimal Risk Remains An Open Question, Ariella Binik, Charles Weijer, Mark Sheehan

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Refuting The Net Risks Test: A Response To Wendler And Miller's "Assessing Research Risks Systematically", Charles Weijer, Paul Miller Jul 2007

Refuting The Net Risks Test: A Response To Wendler And Miller's "Assessing Research Risks Systematically", Charles Weijer, Paul Miller

Charles Weijer

Earlier in the pages of this journal (p 481), Wendler and Miller offered the "net risks test" as an alternative approach to the ethical analysis of benefits and harms in research. They have been vocal critics of the dominant view of benefit-harm analysis in research ethics, which encompasses core concepts of duty of care, clinical equipoise and component analysis. They had been challenged to come up with a viable alternative to component analysis which meets five criteria. The alternative must (1) protect research subjects; (2) allow clinical research to proceed; (3) explain how physicians may offer trial enrolment to their …


Evaluating Risks Of Non-Therapeutic Research In Children, Paul Miller, Charles Weijer Dec 2004

Evaluating Risks Of Non-Therapeutic Research In Children, Paul Miller, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Will The Real Charles Fried Please Stand Up?, Paul Miller, Charles Weijer Nov 2003

Will The Real Charles Fried Please Stand Up?, Paul Miller, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

In response to the preceding commentary by Jerry Menikoff in this issue of the Journal, the authors argue that Fried's central concern is not that randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are conducted without consent, but rather that various aspects of the design and conduct of RCTs are in tension with physicians' duties of personal care to their patients. Although Fried does argue that the existence of equipoise cannot justify failure to obtain consent from research subjects, informed consent by itself does not supplant ill subjects' rights to personalized judgment and care embodied in Fried's equipoise.


I Need A Placebo Like I Need A Hole In The Head, Charles Weijer Feb 2002

I Need A Placebo Like I Need A Hole In The Head, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


The Ethics Of Placebo-Controlled Trials, Charles Weijer, Kathleen Glass Jan 2002

The Ethics Of Placebo-Controlled Trials, Charles Weijer, Kathleen Glass

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


When Argument Fails, Charles Weijer Dec 2001

When Argument Fails, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Moral Solutions In Assessing Research Risk, Paul Miller, Charles Weijer Aug 2000

Moral Solutions In Assessing Research Risk, Paul Miller, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Thinking Clearly About Research Risk: Implications Of The Work Of Benjamin Freedman, Charles Weijer Oct 1999

Thinking Clearly About Research Risk: Implications Of The Work Of Benjamin Freedman, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


The Irb's Role In Assessing The Generalizability Of Non-Nih-Funded Clinical Trials, Charles Weijer Feb 1998

The Irb's Role In Assessing The Generalizability Of Non-Nih-Funded Clinical Trials, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Demarcating Research And Treatment: A Systematic Approach For The Analysis Of The Ethics Of Clinical Research, Benjamin Freedman, Abraham Fuks, Charles Weijer Nov 1992

Demarcating Research And Treatment: A Systematic Approach For The Analysis Of The Ethics Of Clinical Research, Benjamin Freedman, Abraham Fuks, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.