The Dark Side of Research: March 8th at 12pm
The Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights at Boston University School of Public Health will be hosting the 2nd Annual Cathy Shine Lecture on Thursday, March 8th at 12 PM
BU School of Medicine, Room L-110, 72 E. Concord Street, Boston
THE DARK SIDE OF RESEARCH: Exploitation in Clinical Trials
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, Professor, Center for Bioethics and Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, and author of White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine (2010).
Do you really know how research is conducted? Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, author of White Coat, Black Hat and Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream, offers surprising examples of the influence of market forces on medicine. Dr. Elliott’s studies of clinical trials reveal what physicians may not know, from a university’s refusal to investigate a student’s death to the source of research subjects recruited by commercial companies. A physician and bioethicist at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Dr. Elliott is also respected as a courageous social commentator, with articles like “Guinea Pigging” in the New Yorker.
