RT Article
T1 REFOCUSING THE RESPONSIVENESS REQUIREMENT
JF Bioethics
VO 27
IS 3
SP 151
OP 159
A1 Shah, Seema
A1 Wolitz, Rebecca
A1 Emanuel, Ezekiel
A2 Wolitz, Rebecca
A2 Emanuel, Ezekiel
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1781884404
AB Many guidelines for international research require that studies be responsive to host community health needs or health priorities. Although responsiveness possesses great intuitive and rhetorical appeal, existing conceptions are confusing and difficult to apply. Not only are there few examples of what research the responsiveness requirement permits and what it rejects, but its application can lead to contradictory results. Because of the practical difficulties in applying responsiveness and the danger that misapplying responsiveness could harm the interests of developing countries, we argue that responsiveness should be refocused in three ways: in terms of (1) who enforces it, (2) under what standard, and (3) in what cases. We conclude that responsiveness should be applied by host country officials at the policy level with the exercise of judgment when externally funded research threatens to displace scarce local resources.
K1 Responsiveness
K1 priority setting
K1 global health
K1 international research ethics
DO 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2011.01903.x