Ethics by Committee by Noortje Jacobs - 9780226819327

Ethics by CommitteeA History of Reasoning Together about Medicine, Science, Society, and the State\nAuthor(s): Noortje Jacobs\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226819327, 978-0226819327\nSynopsis\nHow liberal democracies in the late twentieth century have sought to resolve public concerns over charged issues in medicine and science.\n\n Ethics boards have become obligatory passage points in todays medical science, and we forget how novel they really are. The use of humans in experiments is an age-old practice that records show goes back to at least the third century BC, and it has been popular as a practice since the early modern period. Yet in most countries around the world, hardly any formal checks and balances existed to govern the communal oversight of experiments involving human subjects until at least the 1960s. Ethics by Committee traces the rise of ethics boards for human experime.