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- Title
Returning Incidental Findings in Low‐Resource Settings: A Case of Rescue?
- Authors
Mackay, Douglas
- Abstract
Abstract: In a carefully argued article, Haley K. Sullivan and Benjamin E. Berkman address the important question of whether investigators have a duty to report incidental findings to research participants in low‐resource settings. They suggest that the duty to rescue offers the most plausible justification for the duty to return incidental findings, and they explore the implications of this duty for the context of research in low‐resource settings. While I think they make valuable headway on an important problem, in this commentary, I identify a significant difference between the paradigmatic rescue case and the return of incidental findings in low‐resource settings. This difference, I suggest, implies that their framework may be too narrow in scope. If investigators (and their sponsors) really wish to fulfill their duty to rescue, they must consider factors that are left out of Sullivan and Berkman's framework.
- Subjects
OVARIAN tumors; BREAST tumor risk factors; MALNUTRITION; CATASTROPHIC illness; HEALTH services accessibility; MEDICAL needs assessment; MEDICAL ethics; POVERTY; PREVENTIVE health services; QUALITY of life; SAFETY; VIOLENCE; VIOLENCE &; psychology; HARM reduction; BRCA genes; SEVERITY of illness index; TUMOR risk factors
- Publication
Hastings Center Report, 2018, Vol 48, Issue 3, p28
- ISSN
0093-0334
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hast.852