Rhetoric of research: a call for renaming the clinical research partnership.

Objective: Research cannot advance without the voluntary participation of human participants.

Summary Of Arguments: Full participation of research participants is often restrained by the traditional research framework, which relegates them to a predefined participant role and allows them only quasi-scripted opportunities to contribute to research processes and outcomes. Terms commonly used to refer to research participants do not reflect their significant role or send a clear message about their value.