Description
Book SynopsisThis work's insights into the nature and consequences of medical innovation contribute to the national debate on how best to protect patients while fostering innovation and securing benefits.
Trade ReviewA captivating read for just about any thoughtful person, Innovation in Medical Technology could serve as an effective springboard for lively teaching sessions in a medical school or residency program, or as a provocative introduction to a course in medical ethics. -- Richard M. Stillman JAMA 2007 This volume serves as an introduction to legal and ethical issues that emerge from medical technological innovation, and to the boundary issues between medical research and clinical practice. It includes policy suggestions for regulation in this gray zone of practice between clinical care and research, as well as a short history of human subjects research. Choice 2008 The work provides both medical practitioners and academicians of various levels of experience with a helpful overview of the complicated dilemmas surrounding innovation in medicine. -- Jacob William Shatzer Ethics and Medicine 2010
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Need to Ask Questions about Innovation
1. Distinguishing Innovative Medical Practice from Research
2. The Modern History of Human Research Ethics
3. Innovation in the Off-Label Use of Drugs
4. Innovative Surgery
5. Innovation in Assisted Reproduction
6. Innovation in Neuroimaging
7. Questions, Issues, and Recommendations Going Forward
Conclusion: Final Thoughts on the Landscape of Innovation
Appendix A: Directives for Human Experimentation: Nuremberg Code
Appendix B: World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki
Appendix C: Description of Department of Health and Human Services
Regulations for the Protection of Human Subjects
Appendix D: Participants in Lasker Forum on Ethical Challenges in Biomedical Research and Practice
Notes
References
Index
