Benjamin Freedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 7169268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Freedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Freedman |
| SIGNATURE | FREEDMAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2228-7383 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sketches from the Artists' Notebooks
Competence within a Society of Strangers
Structuring the Review of Human Genetics Protocols Part-III
Kathleen Cranley Glass, Charles Weijer, Denis Cournoyer, Trudo Lemmens, Reberta M. Palmour, Stanley H. Shapiro, Benjamin Freedman, Structuring the Review of Human Genetics Protocols Part-III: Gene Therapy Studies, IRB: Ethics & Human Research, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 1999), pp. 1-9
Monitoring Informed Consent in an Oncology Study Posing Serious Risk to Subjects
Myrian Skrutkowski, Charles Weijer, Stan Shapiro, Abraham Fuks, Adrian Langleben, Benjamin Freedman, Monitoring Informed Consent in an Oncology Study Posing Serious Risk to Subjects, IRB: Ethics & Human Research, Vol. 20, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1998), pp. 1-6
Respectful Service and Reverent Obedience
Too often, caregivers and ethicists misunderstand the motivations of adult children who are involved in the care of their parents. They sometimes fail to appreciate the ways in which adult children may be trying to carry out their filial obligations toward a parent, obligations dictated by their religious commitments. Exploring these obligations within the Jewish tradition can help illuminate these issues and provide an alternative to a rights-ba…
Multicenter Trials and Subject Eligibility
In Loco Parentis Minimal Risk as an Ethical Threshold for Research upon Children
Benjamin Freedman, Abraham Fuks, Charles Weijer, In Loco Parentis Minimal Risk as an Ethical Threshold for Research upon Children, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 1993), pp. 13-19
Demarcating Research and Treatment Interventions
Case Studies
Cohort-Specific Consent
Placebo-Controlled Trials and the Logic of Clinical Purpose
The exercise of human intelligence ramifies in numerous and diverse ways. Nevertheless, as applied in theory or practice, in work or play, directed toward life or toward death, each manifestation shares a common underlying method: organized comparison. Whether deriving equations in mathematics, or developing progressions of chords in jazz, or, in business, studying the impact of advertisements upon defined populations, reason is at bottom engaged…
Nonvalidated Therapies and HIV Disease
As more AIDS patients seek access to nonvalidated therapies, Authorized Investigational Units can preserve the integrity of clinical trials, protect patients' interests, and enhance clinicians' flexibility
Health Professions, Codes, and the Right to Refuse to Treat HIV-Infectious Patients
The 1986 American Nurses' Association's "Statements regarding risk v.\nresponsibility in providing nursing care" posits a positive duty whenever the\nvalue of care outweighs any harm the nurse might incur and does not entail\nmore than a "minimal risk." The author contends that the level of risk in\nvarious nursing situations must be delineated. The American Medical\nAssociation's 1986 "Statement on AIDS" permits physicians who are emotionally\nu…
A Response to Burtchaell
Equipoise and the Ethics of Clinical Research
The ethics of clinical research requires equipoise--a state of genuine uncertainty on the part of the clinical investigator regarding the comparative therapeutic merits of each arm in a trial. Should the investigator discover that one treatment is of superior therapeutic merit, he or she is ethically obliged to offer that treatment. The current understanding of this requirement, which entails that the investigator have no "treatment preference" t…
Scientific Value and Validity as Ethical Requirements for Research
It may be accepted as a maxim that a poorly or improperly designed study involving human subjects one that could not possibly yield scientific facts (that is, reproducible observations) relevant to the question under study-is by definition unethical. Moreover, when a study is in itself scientifically invalid, all other ethical considerations become irrelevant. There is no point in obtaining informed consent to perform a useless study. A worthless…
Canada
In the authors' opinion, Canada is a developing country in the field\nof bioethics. Public interest in ethical dilemmas is sporadic and sparked by\nmedia reports of controversies. Professional interest is strategic and\ndirected at issues such as health care funding and the impact of new\ntechnologies. Bioethics courses are offered in some undergraduate programs\nand professional schools. Policy developments reflect government control of\nhealth …
Man Bites Dog
Medical Ethics and Moral Philosophy
The Validity of Ignorant Consent to Medical Research
One Philosopher's Experience on an Ethics Committee
The Case for Medical Care, Inefficient or Not
Case Studies in Bioethics
A Moral Theory of Informed Consent
M o st medical codes of ethics, and most physicians, agree that the physician ought to obtain the free and informed of his subject or patient before attempting any serious medical procedure, experimental or therapeutic in nature. They agree, moreover, that a proxy consent ought to be obtained on behalf of the incompetent subject. And informed consent is seen as not merely a legal requirement, and not merely a formality: it is a substantial requir…
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A Moral Theory of Informed Consent
M o st medical codes of ethics, and most physicians, agree that the physician ought to obtain the free and informed of his subject or patient before attempting any serious medical procedure, experimental or therapeutic in nature. They agree, moreover, that a proxy consent ought to be obtained on behalf of the incompetent subject. And informed consent is seen as not merely a legal requirement, and not merely a formality: it is a substantial requir…
The Case for Medical Care, Inefficient or Not
Case Studies in Bioethics
One Philosopher's Experience on an Ethics Committee
Medical Ethics and Moral Philosophy
The Validity of Ignorant Consent to Medical Research
Man Bites Dog
Canada
In the authors' opinion, Canada is a developing country in the field\nof bioethics. Public interest in ethical dilemmas is sporadic and sparked by\nmedia reports of controversies. Professional interest is strategic and\ndirected at issues such as health care funding and the impact of new\ntechnologies. Bioethics courses are offered in some undergraduate programs\nand professional schools. Policy developments reflect government control of\nhealth …
Equipoise and the Ethics of Clinical Research
The ethics of clinical research requires equipoise--a state of genuine uncertainty on the part of the clinical investigator regarding the comparative therapeutic merits of each arm in a trial. Should the investigator discover that one treatment is of superior therapeutic merit, he or she is ethically obliged to offer that treatment. The current understanding of this requirement, which entails that the investigator have no "treatment preference" t…
Scientific Value and Validity as Ethical Requirements for Research
It may be accepted as a maxim that a poorly or improperly designed study involving human subjects one that could not possibly yield scientific facts (that is, reproducible observations) relevant to the question under study-is by definition unethical. Moreover, when a study is in itself scientifically invalid, all other ethical considerations become irrelevant. There is no point in obtaining informed consent to perform a useless study. A worthless…
Health Professions, Codes, and the Right to Refuse to Treat HIV-Infectious Patients
The 1986 American Nurses' Association's "Statements regarding risk v.\nresponsibility in providing nursing care" posits a positive duty whenever the\nvalue of care outweighs any harm the nurse might incur and does not entail\nmore than a "minimal risk." The author contends that the level of risk in\nvarious nursing situations must be delineated. The American Medical\nAssociation's 1986 "Statement on AIDS" permits physicians who are emotionally\nu…
A Response to Burtchaell
Nonvalidated Therapies and HIV Disease
As more AIDS patients seek access to nonvalidated therapies, Authorized Investigational Units can preserve the integrity of clinical trials, protect patients' interests, and enhance clinicians' flexibility
Cohort-Specific Consent
Placebo-Controlled Trials and the Logic of Clinical Purpose
The exercise of human intelligence ramifies in numerous and diverse ways. Nevertheless, as applied in theory or practice, in work or play, directed toward life or toward death, each manifestation shares a common underlying method: organized comparison. Whether deriving equations in mathematics, or developing progressions of chords in jazz, or, in business, studying the impact of advertisements upon defined populations, reason is at bottom engaged…
Case Studies
Demarcating Research and Treatment Interventions
In Loco Parentis Minimal Risk as an Ethical Threshold for Research upon Children
Benjamin Freedman, Abraham Fuks, Charles Weijer, In Loco Parentis Minimal Risk as an Ethical Threshold for Research upon Children, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 1993), pp. 13-19
Multicenter Trials and Subject Eligibility
Respectful Service and Reverent Obedience
Too often, caregivers and ethicists misunderstand the motivations of adult children who are involved in the care of their parents. They sometimes fail to appreciate the ways in which adult children may be trying to carry out their filial obligations toward a parent, obligations dictated by their religious commitments. Exploring these obligations within the Jewish tradition can help illuminate these issues and provide an alternative to a rights-ba…
Monitoring Informed Consent in an Oncology Study Posing Serious Risk to Subjects
Myrian Skrutkowski, Charles Weijer, Stan Shapiro, Abraham Fuks, Adrian Langleben, Benjamin Freedman, Monitoring Informed Consent in an Oncology Study Posing Serious Risk to Subjects, IRB: Ethics & Human Research, Vol. 20, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1998), pp. 1-6
Competence within a Society of Strangers
Structuring the Review of Human Genetics Protocols Part-III
Kathleen Cranley Glass, Charles Weijer, Denis Cournoyer, Trudo Lemmens, Reberta M. Palmour, Stanley H. Shapiro, Benjamin Freedman, Structuring the Review of Human Genetics Protocols Part-III: Gene Therapy Studies, IRB: Ethics & Human Research, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 1999), pp. 1-9
Sketches from the Artists' Notebooks
Psychology (17 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Ethics in medical practice (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Ethics in Clinical Research (7 works) · Alternative medicine (6 works) · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Engineering ethics (4 works)