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Edited by Jeffrey P. Kahn, Anna C. Mastroianni, and Jeremy Sugarman. 190 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1998. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-511353-5.

Since the atrocious experiments performed by the Nazis on humans, informed consent has became both a well-understood concept and a protective mechanism in research. Justice is a much more complex concept, challenging both theoreticians and those who attempt to apply it. In the context of research, justice provides protection by ensuring the right of persons to make fully informed and uncoerced decisions about their participation in research, fairly distributing the risks and benefits of research among the study participants, and preventing the exploitation of vulnerable persons.

This book carefully examines each of these aspects of justice in research. Historical reviews . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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