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The Cambridge Handbook of Health Research Regulation

The Cambridge Handbook of Health Research Regulation
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The Cambridge Handbook of Health Research Regulation

Graeme Laurie, University of Edinburgh
Edward Dove, University of Edinburgh
Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, University of Edinburgh
Catriona McMillan, University of Edinburgh
Emily Postan, University of Edinburgh
Nayha Sethi, University of Edinburgh
Annie Sorbie, University of Edinburgh
September 2021
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    The first ever interdisciplinary handbook in the field, this vital resource offers wide-ranging analysis of health research regulation. The chapters confront gaps between documented law and research in practice, and draw on legal, ethical and social theories about what counts as robust research regulation to make recommendations for future directions. The Handbook provides an account and analysis of current regulatory tools - such as consent to participation in research and the anonymization of data to protection participants' privacy - as well as commentary on the roles of the actors and stakeholders who are involved in human health research and its regulation. Drawing on a range of international examples of research using patient data, tissue and other human materials, the collective contribution of the volume is to explore current challenges in delivering good medical research for the public good and to provide insights on how to design better regulatory approaches. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

    • This title is Open Access
    • Covers both theory and practice in human health research regulation
    • Includes recommendations for lessons to be learned from a wide range of case studies
    • Shows how different disciplines can benefit from each other's knowledge

    Reviews & endorsements

    ‘This is an excellent book … I learned a great deal by reading it, gained much food for thought and know that I will return to it often, and hence I can highly recommend it.’ Lyn Horn, Bioethics

    ‘a rigorously edited, multidisciplinary handbook that has it all: from a solid conceptual framework that comprehends the axiological foundations of health research to the corresponding regulatory and procedural safeguards for the subjects involved … This volume in the "Cambridge Handbook" series is the perfect tool for students of health research regulation; biomedical investigators, industry regulators, or those seeking justice before a court of law; and professionals charged with administering justice … Highly recommended.’ P. Rodriguez del Pozo, Choice Connect

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    June 2021
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    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • Part I. Concepts, Tools, Processes
    • Section A. Concepts
    • Introduction
    • 1. Vulnerability
    • 2. Autonomy
    • 3. Proportionality
    • 4. Social Value
    • 5. Solidarity
    • 6. Public Interest
    • 7. Privacy
    • 8. Trust and Institutions: Global Health Research Collaborations
    • 9. Vulnerabilities and Power: The Political Side of Health Research
    • Section B. Tools and Processes
    • Introduction
    • 10. Consent
    • 11. Forms of Engagement
    • 12. Participatory Governance in Health Research: Patients and Publics as Stewards of Health Research Systems
    • 13. Risk-Benefit Analysis
    • 14. The Regulatory Role of Patents in Innovative Health Research and Its Translation from the Laboratory to the Clinic
    • 15. Benefit Sharing – From Compensation to Collaboration
    • 16. Taking Failure Seriously: Health Research Regulation for Medical Devices, Technological Risk and Preventing Future Harm
    • 17. Rules, Principles and the Added Value of Best Practice in Health Research Regulation
    • 18. Research Ethics Review
    • 19. Data Access Governance
    • 20. Is the Red Queen Sitting on the Throne? Current Trends and Future Developments in Human Health Research Regulation
    • 21. Regulatory Authorities and Decision-Making in Health Research: The Institutional Dimension
    • 22. The Once and Future Role of Policy Advice for Health Regulation by Experts and Advisory Committees
    • Part II: Reimagining Health Research Regulation
    • Section A: Private and Public Dimensions of Health Research Regulation
    • Introduction
    • 23. Changing Identities in Disclosure of Research Findings
    • 24. Health Research and Privacy through the Lens of Public Interest: A Monocle for the Myopic?
    • 25. Mobilising Public Expertise in Health Research Regulation
    • 26. Towards Adaptive Governance in Big Data Health Research: Implementing Regulatory Principles
    • 27. Regulating Automated Healthcare and Research Technologies: First Do No Harm (to the Commons)
    • Section B: Widening the Lens
    • Introduction
    • 28.When Learning is Continuous: Bridging the Research-Therapy Divide in the Regulatory Governance of Artificial Intelligence as Medical Devices
    • 29. The Oversight of Clinical Innovation in a Medical Marketplace
    • 30. The Challenge of 'Evidence': Research and Regulation of Traditional and Non-Conventional Medicines
    • 31. Experiences of Ethics, Governance, and Scientific Practice in Neuroscience Research
    • 32. Humanitarian Research: Ethical Considerations in Conducting Research during Global Health Emergencies
    • 33. Governance Framework for Advanced Therapies in Argentina
    • Section C: Towards Responsive Regulation
    • Introduction
    • 34. Human Gene Editing: Traversing Normative Systems
    • 35. Towards a Global Germline Ethics? Human Heritable Genetic Modification and the Future of Health Research Regulation
    • 36. Human Organs and Animal Bodies: Regulating Interspecies Research
    • 37. When is Human? Rethinking the 14-day Rule
    • 38. A Perfect Storm: Non-Evidence-Based Medicine in the Fertility Clinic
    • 39. Margins or Mainstream? Enhancement and the Need for a New Regulatory Perspective
    • Afterword: What Could a Learning Health Research Regulation System Look Like?
      Contributors
    • Graeme Laurie, Annie Sorbie, Wendy Rogers, Natalie Stoljar, Owen Schaefer, Hans van Delden, Rieke van der Graaf, Katharina Kieslich, Barbara Prainsack, David Townend, Angeliki Kerasidou, Iain Brassington, Edward Dove, Nayha Sethi, Jane Kaye, Megan Prictor, Mhairi Aitken, Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Kim Chuong, Kieran O'Doherty, Carl Coleman, Dianne Nicole, Jane Nielsen, Kadri Simm, Mark Flear, Mahsa Shabani, Adrian Thorogood, Madeline Murtagh, Stuart Nicholls, Aisling McMahon, Eric Meslin, Emily Postan Mark Taylor, Tess Whitton, Michael Burgess, Effy Vayena, Alessandro Blasimme, Roger Brownsword, Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, Calvin Ho, Wendy Lipworth, Miriam Wiersma, Narcyz Ghinea, Tereza Hendl, Ian Kerridge, Tamra Lysaght, Megan Munsie, Chris Rudge, Cameron Stewart, Catherine Waldby, Nayeli Urquiza Haas, Emilie Cloatre, Martyn Pickersgill, Matthew Hunt, Fabiana Arzuaga; Catriona McMillan; Rosario Isasi; Amy Hinterberger, Sara Bea, Sarah Chan, Emily Jackson, Shawn Harmon

    • Editors
    • Graeme Laurie , University of Edinburgh

      Graeme Laurie is Professorial Fellow and Founding Director of the J. Kenyon Mason Institute, Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh. He was the Principal Investigator on the Liminal Spaces Project (2014-2021).

    • Edward Dove , University of Edinburgh

      Edward Dove is Lecturer in Health Law and Regulation and a Deputy Director of the Mason Institute.

    • Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra , University of Edinburgh

      Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra is Lecturer in Bioethics and Global Health Ethics at the Mason Institute.

    • Catriona McMillan , University of Edinburgh

      Catriona McMillan is a Senior Research Fellow in Medical Law and Ethics and a Deputy Director of the Mason Institute.

    • Emily Postan , University of Edinburgh

      Emily Postan is Senior Research and Teaching Fellow in Bioethics and a Deputy Director of the Mason Institute.

    • Nayha Sethi , University of Edinburgh

      Nayha Sethi is Chancellor's Fellow in Data Driven Innovation and a Deputy Director of the Mason Institute.

    • Annie Sorbie , University of Edinburgh

      Annie Sorbie is Lecturer in Medical Law and Ethics and a Deputy Director of the Mason Institute.