Inducement, due and otherwise

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Federal regulations governing the protection of research subjects specify that no" undue
inducements" be of-fered to lure people into volunteering (45 CFR 46.103); if the regulations
must use such problematic concepts, I suppose we must try to make sense of them. We are
all in Ruth Macklin's debt for her attempt at the thankless task (" On Paying Money to
Research Subjects," IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research, May 1981, pp. 1-6). But
the concept of" undue inducement," and its negation, the" due in-ducement," outrun the …
Federal regulations governing the protection of research subjects specify that no" undue inducements" be of-fered to lure people into volunteering (45 CFR 46.103); if the regulations must use such problematic concepts, I suppose we must try to make sense of them. We are all in Ruth Macklin's debt for her attempt at the thankless task (" On Paying Money to Research Subjects," IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research, May 1981, pp. 1-6). But the concept of" undue inducement," and its negation, the" due in-ducement," outrun the resources of sensible analysis.
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