Title
Will the Real Charles Fried Please Stand Up?
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2003
Source
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
Volume
13
Issue
4
First Page
353
Last Page
357
Abstract
In response to the preceding commentary by Jerry Menikoff in this issue of the Journal, the authors argue that Fried's central concern is not that randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are conducted without consent, but rather that various aspects of the design and conduct of RCTs are in tension with physicians' duties of personal care to their patients. Although Fried does argue that the existence of equipoise cannot justify failure to obtain consent from research subjects, informed consent by itself does not supplant ill subjects' rights to personalized judgment and care embodied in Fried's equipoise.
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Notes
Dr. Charles Weijer is currently a faculty member at The University of Western Ontario.