Is using children as
research subjects ever justified? Are there limits to such use? Does the fact that children are medically and psychosocially different from adults have
implications for research? What can we learn from the history of the use and abuse of children as research subjects? Doparents have the authority to volunteer their children for research projects? How should children participate in the decision to be involved in research? How should research risks be assessed and balanced?These perplexing questions and others are addressed by a distinguished group of experts in the field of biomedical and behavioral
research with children. This book adopts an integrated multidisciplinary…
