The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program
Presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
Seema K. Shah, JD, HEC-C
Founder’s Board Professor of Medical Ethics,
Lurie Children’s Hospital
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine,
Pritzker School of Law (by courtesy)
Intentionally Infecting Humans: Is It Ethical?
In controlled human infection (CHI) research, researchers intentionally expose people to pathogens to gain scientific insights. CHI research has led to key breakthroughs but remains controversial. In this talk, Professor Shah will first provide a brief historical overview of this research, demonstrating how ethically problematic research from the past still casts a shadow on research today. She will then explain modern CHI research and demonstrate how a fundamental lack of understanding of this research contributes to ongoing ethical controversy. Professor Shah will also provide an ethical framework for analyzing CHI research that highlights the difference between creating a new model for infecting humans for the first time and using an established and safe model in CHI studies. This important distinction can help calibrate when extra scrutiny is needed for CHI research. Finally, the lecture will close by showing how lessons from the analysis of CHI research can help advance research ethics more generally.
This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior St), Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.
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