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Research participation as a contract.

Craig Lawson

    Ethics & Behavior
    |January 1, 1995
    PubMed
    Summary
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    This study proposes a contractualist framework for human-participant research ethics, defining researcher and participant rights and responsibilities through their agreement. This approach ethically permits complex research, including deception and studies on vulnerable groups, while establishing clear boundaries.

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    Area of Science:

    • Bioethics
    • Research Ethics
    • Moral Philosophy

    Background:

    • Current ethical guidelines for human-participant research face challenges in addressing complex scenarios.
    • Existing frameworks struggle to adequately explain or permit research involving deception or vulnerable populations.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce a contractualist conception of human-participant research ethics.
    • To establish the contractual understanding between researcher and participant as the primary source of ethical rights and responsibilities.

    Main Methods:

    • Philosophical argumentation
    • Development of a contractualist ethical theory
    • Analysis of ethical incidents in human-participant research

    Main Results:

    Keywords:
    Analytical ApproachBiomedical and Behavioral Research

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    • A contractualist framework provides a robust explanation for fundamental ethical aspects of human-participant research.
    • This conception permits ethically challenging research, such as studies involving deception, concealed methods, and dependent populations.
    • The theory delineates specific conditions and limits for the ethical permissibility of such research.

    Conclusions:

    • Contractualist ethics offers a viable and comprehensive approach to human-participant research.
    • This framework balances the allowance of complex research with necessary ethical boundaries.
    • It provides a clear basis for the rights and responsibilities in human-participant research.