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Gene Transfer and the Ethics of First-in-Human Research: Lost in Translation
Jonathan Kimmelman
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paperback. Examines the ethical and policy dimensions of testing novel medical interventions in human beings for the first time. Num Pages: 218 pages, 10 b/w illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: MBQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 384.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521690843
SKU
V9780521690843
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99-24
About Jonathan Kimmelman
Jonathan Kimmelman is Assistant Professor, Biomedical Ethics Unit, Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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