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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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Vaccines and their development: historical, social, and scientific perspectives
  • Human-subjects research and the regulation of drugs and biologicals
  • Human-subjects research and HIV vaccines
  • The state of HIV vaccine science
  • Planning phase III HIV vaccine efficacy trials
  • Summary.