{"title":"Noortje Jacobs","description":"\u003cp\u003eNoortje Jacobs explores complex ethical questions and the intricacies of human decision-making with a thoughtful and analytical approach. Her works invite readers to reflect on the balance between individual values and collective responsibility, often framed within engaging and intellectually stimulating narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a compelling blend of philosophy and practical inquiry, emphasising the challenges faced by committees and groups in reaching consensus. Jacobs' writing is ideal for those interested in ethics presented through clear, accessible reasoning without sacrificing depth.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ethics-by-committee-by-noortje-jacobs-9780226819327","title":"Ethics by Committee","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow liberal democracies in the late twentieth century have sought to resolve public concerns over charged issues in medicine and science.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEthics boards have become obligatory passage points in today’s medical science, and we forget how novel they really are. The use of humans in experiments is an age-old practice that records show goes back to at least the third century BC, and it has been popular as a practice since the early modern period. Yet in most countries around the world, hardly any formal checks and balances existed to govern the communal oversight of experiments involving human subjects until at least the 1960s. \u003cem\u003eEthics by Committee\u003c\/em\u003e traces the rise of ethics boards for human experimentation in the second half of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsing the Netherlands as a case study, historian Noortje Jacobs shows how the authority of physicians to make decisions about clinical research in this period gave way in most developed nations to formal mechanisms of communal decision-making that served to regiment the behaviour of individual researchers. This historically unprecedented change in scientific governance came out of the growing international wariness of medical research in the decades after World War II and was meant to solidify a new way of reasoning together in liberal democracies about medicine and science. But what reasoning together meant, and who was invited to participate, changed drastically over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn detailing this history, Jacobs shows that research ethics committees were originally intended not only to make human experimentation more ethical but also to raise its epistemic quality and intensify the use of new clinical research methods. By examining complex negotiations over the appropriate governance of human subjects research, \u003cem\u003eEthics by Committee\u003c\/em\u003e is an important contribution to our understanding of the randomized controlled trial and the history of research ethics and bioethics more generally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455555715308,"sku":"9780226819327","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71NgcDhXyJL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774782822"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/noortje-jacobs.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}