Can Contracts Enhance Participant Autonomy in Clinical Trials?

"Can Contracts Enhance Participant Autonomy in Clinical Trials?." The American Journal of Bioethics, 11(4), pp. 24–25

Notes

1. To be clear, my purpose here only is to give substance to the claim that commitments can enhance autonomy. Therefore, it is still an open question as to whether this model of autonomy should inform how consent for clinical trials proceeds. I expect my suggestion to be objected to on the grounds that the standards suggested by this definition of autonomy are too high for the purposes of recruiting research subjects. But I will not respond to this objection here.