The ethics police? : the struggle to make human research safe / Robert L. Klitzman, M.D.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]

x, 422 pages ; 25 cm

Protecting the people we experiment on -- "Inside the black box" : becoming and being IRB members -- Weighing risks and benefits and undue inducement -- Defining research and how good it needs to be -- What to tell subjects : battles over consent forms -- From "nitpicky" to "user-friendly" : inter-IRB variations and their causes -- Federal agencies vs. local IRBs -- The roles of industry -- The local ecologies of institutions -- Trusting vs. policing researchers -- Bad behavior: research integrity -- Researchers abroad : studies in the developing world -- Changing national policies -- Conclusions : other changes.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-414) and index.