Payment for research participation: a coercive offer?
A. Wertheimer, F. Miller
Apr 30, 2008
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Journal of Medical Ethics
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Key Takeaway Key Takeaway: Payment for research participation is never coercive, but may produce undue inducement in some cases.
Abstract
Payment for research participation has raised ethical concerns, especially with respect to its potential for coercion. We argue that characterising payment for research participation as coercive is misguided, because offers of benefit cannot constitute coercion. In this article we analyse the concept of coercion, refute mistaken conceptions of coercion and explain why the offer of payment for research participation is never coercive but in some cases may produce undue inducement.
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