Karen Birmingham

Pioneering Ethics in a Longitudinal Study (eBook, ePUB)

The Early Development of the ALSPAC Ethics and Law Committee

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as Children of the 90s, is a world-leading birth cohort study that uniquely enrolled participants in utero and obtained genetic material from a geographic population. It instigated the innovative but controversial ALSPAC Ethics and Law Committee. This book describes in detail the early work of this Committee, from establishing the core ethical principles necessary to protect participants, to the evolution of policies concerning confidentiality and anonymity, consent, non-intervention and disclosure of individual results, data access and security. Quotes from interviews with early members of the Committee reflect not only on its pioneering work but also on the unusual style and inspirational leadership of the first Chair, Professor Michael Furmston. This will be of interest to those involved in other cohort studies in understanding the evolution of ethical policies as ALSPAC developed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447340393
• Artikelnr.: 50765219

Autorenporträt

Karen Birmingham is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Child and Adolescent Health, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol. Having been Secretary of the ALSPAC Ethics and Law Committee for 15 years, she has a particular interest in the development of the ethical policies that were necessary for the new methodologies used in ALSPAC.