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Sleep Vigil
March 2022
Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada.
Neurosurg Focus
August 2019
3Colonel (Retired), United States Army, Medical Corps Albany Medical Center Hospital, Albany, NY.
BMC Int Health Hum Rights
October 2015
Departamento de Psicología del Desarrollo y Educacional, Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Av. 8 de Octubre 2733, CP 11600, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Background: Worldwide, thousands of children are acting in different roles in armed groups. Whereas human rights activism and humanitarian imperatives tend to emphasize the image of child soldiers as incapable victims of adults' abusive compulsion, this image does not fully correspond with prevailing pedagogical and jurisprudential discourses, nor does it represent all child soldiers' own perceptions of their role. Moreover, contemporary warfare is often marked by fuzzy distinctions between perpetrators and victims.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe federal regulations that govern biomedical research, most notably those enshrined in the Common Rule, express a protectionist ethos aimed at safeguarding subjects of human experimentation from the potential harms of research participation. In at least one critical way, however, the regulations have always fallen short of this promise: if a subject suffers a research-related injury, then neither the investigator nor the sponsor has any legal obligation under the regulations to care for or compensate the subject. Because very few subjects with research-related injuries can meet the financial or evidentiary requirements associated with a successful legal claim to recover the costs associated with their injuries, most injured subjects must shoulder the burden of those expenses alone.
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