Exploitation in payments to research subjects.
Offering cash payments to research subjects is a common recruiting method but there is significant debate about whether and in what amount such payments are appropriate. This paper is concerned with exploitation and whether there should be a lower limit on the amount researchers can pay their subjec...
| Publicado en: | Bioethics Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 209 - 220 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2011
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