Regulatory Stewardship of Health Research

Download or read book Regulatory Stewardship of Health Research written by Edward S. Dove and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book examines the interaction of health research and regulation with law through empirical analysis and the application of key anthropological concepts to reveal the inner workings of human health research. Through ground-breaking empirical inquiry, Regulatory Stewardship of Health Research explores how research ethics committees (RECs) work in practice to both protect research participants and promote ethical research. This thought-provoking book provides a new perspective on the regulation of health research by demonstrating how RECs and other regulatory actors seek to fulfil these two functions by performing a role of ‘regulatory stewardship’.