The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 149, Issue 1, Supplement , Pages S12-S14, July 2006

Nontherapeutic research with children: The Ramsey versus McCormick debate

  • Albert R. Jonsen, PhD

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Dr Albert R. Jonsen, Program in Medicine and Human Values, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94115.

From the Program in Medicine and Human Values, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA.

The ethical debates about use of children as research subjects are stimulated by reports of actual events. These reports often distort the essential ethical arguments about how and when use of children can be justified. The essential arguments were clearly formulated in an historic debate between two ethicists, Paul Ramsey and Richard McCormick. Their debate laid the foundations for the recommendations of the National Commission for Protection of Human Subjects that have become the current federal regulations governing research with children.

Abbreviations:  JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association

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PII: S0022-3476(06)00370-2

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2006.04.044

The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 149, Issue 1, Supplement , Pages S12-S14, July 2006

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