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Hepatitis Studies at the Willowbrook State School for Children with Mental Retardation
James M. DuBois
From 1956 through 1971, residents at the Willowbrook State School for Children with Mental Retardation were infected with live hepatitis in order to develop a vaccine. Parents gave permission for their children to participate in this study, often because it guaranteed acceptance into the overcrowded facility.

A Living Wage?
James M. DuBois
A researcher tries to determine the appropriate amount to pay participants in a study comparing psychotherapy and pharmaceutical treatments for bipolar disorder.

It's All the Same
James M. DuBois
A psychiatric researcher feels that a research coordinator recruiting patients for drug trials may be giving participants false hope about the experimental treatments being tested.

Do No Harm
Patricia Keith-Spiegel and Gerald P. Koocher
Researchers offer low-income parents several hundred dollars to enroll their infant children in research that has no potential benefits. The authors present this case as an example of poor research practices.

How Much is Enough?
Patricia Keith-Spiegel and Gerald P. Koocher
A researcher and study participants differ in opinion over what is a sufficient amount to pay prisoners for research participation.

Research or Services?
Gerald P. Koocher and Patricia C. Keith-Spiegel
Parents are told that if they enroll their babies in a research project, the babies will receive an EEG to look for signs of brain damage. Babies not enrolled will not receive this diagnostic test.

Students as Research Subjects
William Timberlake
A researcher recruits students to participate in study to test an experimental treatment for depression. Several students who are randomly assigned to the control group voice complaints about their lack of treatment.

Motivating Research Participation
Jean Campbell
A researcher struggles to recruit sufficient numbers of mental health consumers to participate in an evaluation study of county mental health services before and after a major reorganization of the delivery system.

Research in a War Zone
Emily E. Anderson
In a study investigating exposure to violence and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children in Palestine, researchers consider how best to obtain informed consent from child participants and parents who are vulnerable due to trauma and suspicious of strangers.