Ethics on Trial

Exposing the human consequences of Canada's broken research system.

The governance framework for human research in Canada is dangerouslyflawed and has the potential to lead to harm and suffering.

Canadian researchers and research companies have been allowedto flirt with informed consent; "forum shop" for less restrictive ethicaloversight; and violate the rights, safety, and welfare of Canadians -including those in situations of vulnerability - under the indifferent eyeof a federal government unwilling to fix the system.

In Ethics on Trial, Janice E. Parente - who has led the fight foroversight and accountability of human research in Canada for threedecades - shows readers the devastating consequences of the currentflawed approach. She proposes a simple solution that embraces a goodand ethical system of governance - a system that Canadians shouldinsist on and Canada's lawmakers and research funders should wholeheartedly adopt.