Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: gene transfer lost in translation
- 2 What is gene transfer?
- 3 Safety, values, and legitimacy: the protean nature of risk in translational trials
- 4 Taming uncertainty: risk and gene-transfer clinical research
- 5 Succor or suckers? Benefit, risk, and the therapeutic misconception
- 6 Looking backward: a model of value for translational trials
- 7 The chasm: the ethics of initiating first-in-human clinical trials
- 8 Tropic of cancers: gene transfer in resource-poor settings
- 9 Great Expectations and Hard Times: expectation management in gene transfer
- 10 Something in the sight adjusts itself: conclusions
- Epilogue
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: gene transfer lost in translation
- 2 What is gene transfer?
- 3 Safety, values, and legitimacy: the protean nature of risk in translational trials
- 4 Taming uncertainty: risk and gene-transfer clinical research
- 5 Succor or suckers? Benefit, risk, and the therapeutic misconception
- 6 Looking backward: a model of value for translational trials
- 7 The chasm: the ethics of initiating first-in-human clinical trials
- 8 Tropic of cancers: gene transfer in resource-poor settings
- 9 Great Expectations and Hard Times: expectation management in gene transfer
- 10 Something in the sight adjusts itself: conclusions
- Epilogue
- Index
Summary
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- Information
- Gene Transfer and the Ethics of First-in-Human ResearchLost in Translation, pp. viii - ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009