The search for an AIDS vaccine : ethical issues in the development and testing of a preventive HIV vaccine /

Efforts to halt the spread of AIDS have failed so far, and the creation of a vaccine seems the best hope for controlling the disease. Yet the process of developing and testing an HIV vaccine raises a host of difficult ethical issues. Describing the role of vaccines in controlling infectious disease,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grady, Christine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©1995.
Colección:Medical ethics series.
Temas:
AIDS (Disease) > Vaccination > Moral and ethical aspects.
AIDS (Disease) > Prevention > Moral and ethical aspects.
AIDS (Disease) > Research > Moral and ethical aspects.
Clinical trials > Moral and ethical aspects.
AIDS vaccines.
Research.
AIDS Vaccines
HIV Infections > prevention & control
Clinical Trials
Ethics, Medical
Research
Sida > Vaccination > Aspect moral.
Sida > Prévention > Aspect moral.
Sida > Recherche > Aspect moral.
Études cliniques > Aspect moral.
Vaccins contre le sida.
Éthique médicale.
Recherche.
research (function)
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Vaccins contre le SIDA.
HIV, infections x Přvention et contr̥le.
Essais cliniques comme sujet.
¡thique des m̌decins.
AIDS.
Vaccins.
Medische ethiek.
Communicable Diseases.
Public Health.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Efforts to halt the spread of AIDS have failed so far, and the creation of a vaccine seems the best hope for controlling the disease. Yet the process of developing and testing an HIV vaccine raises a host of difficult ethical issues. Describing the role of vaccines in controlling infectious disease, this study surveys the guidelines, regulations, and attitudes concerning human-subjects research. There is current information on the state of HIV research and the challenges facing scientists. Vaccine research differs considerably from drug research, and Grady explores the current wisdom governing research with human subjects. Proposing a model for the ethical conduct of vaccine research in general, this book applies it to the complex case of an HIV vaccine. Clinical trials are already ongoing, and the next step, field trials to determine efficacy, involves another set of issues - and a call for new strategies for ethical conduct. The Search for an AIDS Vaccine is essential reading for everyone interested in ethics and the conduct of HIV vaccine research.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (193 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-185) and index.
ISBN:0585257604
9780585257600

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